Bono Quotes
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As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
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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, 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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Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.
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Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.
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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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So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.
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Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.
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I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.
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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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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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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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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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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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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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Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.
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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 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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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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I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.
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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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Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.