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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it

Bono

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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Ends Folks Pops
U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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Emotional Feelings Originality
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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Believer Nervous Watches
I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.
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Causes Celebrities Thinking
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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Bequeath Children Pops
It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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Cynical Sweet Teeth
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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Darkness Importance Mean People
U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
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Helping Song Writing
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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Country People Resistance
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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Artist Grief Inspiration
Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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Home People World
I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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Catholic Rocks Stars
Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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Joy Laughter Real
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
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Country Fire Flames Needs
Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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Building Enemy Happens
The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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Country Notice Themselves

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