Bono Quotes
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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.
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I don't like the name, U2, actually.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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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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Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.
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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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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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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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Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.
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There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.
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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.
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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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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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God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
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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.