It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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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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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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You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
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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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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that’s what was in our head for ‘Get On Your Boots.’ But actually, the song is much more punk rock.
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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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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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If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
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The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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