Bono Quotes
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Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
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U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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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. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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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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I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.
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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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Perspective is the cure for depression.
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If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
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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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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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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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I'm the man that brought you the mullet.
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I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. 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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I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.
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There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.
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I don't like the name, U2, actually.
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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.
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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.