You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.
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More Bono Quotes
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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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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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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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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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Sometimes religion gets in the way of 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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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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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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The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.
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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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The less you know, the more you believe.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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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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