Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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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You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
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I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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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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Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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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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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.
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Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan.
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What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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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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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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