Bono Quotes
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You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'
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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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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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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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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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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
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There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.
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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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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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Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
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The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
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I don't let my religious world get too complicated.
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim.
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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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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it.
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I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head.
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Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.
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At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.
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The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.