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.
BONOI get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.
More Bono Quotes
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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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 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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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 is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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Even though I’m a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.
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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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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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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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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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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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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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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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