Bono Quotes
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Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
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It's very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.
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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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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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The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually.
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God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. 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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I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.
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I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.
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So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.
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So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
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As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke.
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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
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I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that... we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and... preposterous.
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It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.
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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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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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As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.
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I'm the man that brought you the mullet.
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You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.