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)
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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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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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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Technology 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.
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The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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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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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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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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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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If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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