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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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I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.
Bono U2
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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If I don't understand it, it must be art.
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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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I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.
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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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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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God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small – minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
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I'm never nervous.
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To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel. On your knees, boy...
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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.
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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.
Bono U2
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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 really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.
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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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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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Bowie was much more responsible for the aesthetic of punk rock than he's been given credit for, like, in fact, most interesting things in the Seventies and Eighties.
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I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that... we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and... preposterous.
Bono U2
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America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
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Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
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Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.
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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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