What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
BONOIn my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
More Bono Quotes
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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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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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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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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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship.
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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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For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
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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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