If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
BONOI 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)
More Bono Quotes
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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’
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You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life…but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what’s missing.
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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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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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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.
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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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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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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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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty,
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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.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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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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