In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
BONOIn my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life…but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what’s missing.
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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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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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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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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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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
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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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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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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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