Bono Quotes
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Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.
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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.
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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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Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
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I don't like the name, U2, actually.
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There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.
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For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
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I'm never nervous.
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Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.
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I'm the man that brought you the mullet.
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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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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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I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.
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Until it's on the radio or online, it's not real. With U2, our album isn't finished until it's in the stores.
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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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I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.
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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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Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
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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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I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.
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God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.