If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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Everyone’s got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It’s a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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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’m a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I’ve been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
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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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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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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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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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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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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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