When those people get up at the Grammys and say, “I thank God”, I always imagine God going, “Oh, don’t, please don’t thank me for that one. Please, oh, that’s an awful one! Don’t thank me for that – that’s a piece of crap !”
BONOWe thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
More Bono Quotes
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God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
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The great gifts of models are not that they’re more beautiful than the next person, it’s that they’re able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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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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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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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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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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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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