The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
BONOTechnology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.
More Bono Quotes
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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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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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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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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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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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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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.
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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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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
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I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’
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