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.
BONOChristians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
More Bono Quotes
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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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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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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Everyone’s got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It’s a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one.
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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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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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It’s quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I’d rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
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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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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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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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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
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