Bono Quotes
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I'm the man that brought you the mullet.
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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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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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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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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
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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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The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.
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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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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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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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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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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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
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It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it.
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I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.
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We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.
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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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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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I'm never nervous.