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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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It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
Bono U2
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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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So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.
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The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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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?'
Bono U2
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.
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What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.
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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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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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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.
Bono U2
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I 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.
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
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The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.
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It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.
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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.
Bono U2
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
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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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Perspective is the cure for depression.
Bono U2