We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
BONOI’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
More Bono Quotes
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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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Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
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I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.
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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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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
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It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.
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I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad — I see it in myself. I know what I’m capable of. Good and bad. It’s very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn’t mean tjat I don’t know it’s there. (Bono)
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