Bono Quotes
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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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U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.
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I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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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 so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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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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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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Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
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Perspective is the cure for depression.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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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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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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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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
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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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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it.
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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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The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.
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You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
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With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That's why we're such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, 'Are people interested?' But I think our band has something and they know we don't just put albums out. We do think about it.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.