Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
BONOPoverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
More Bono Quotes
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You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
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The great gifts of models are not that they’re more beautiful than the next person, it’s that they’re able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.
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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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