Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
BONOFacts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
More Bono Quotes
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You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.
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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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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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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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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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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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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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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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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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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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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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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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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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