The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
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More Bono Quotes
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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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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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
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As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty,
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
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You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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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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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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