Bono Quotes
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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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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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America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
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There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.
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Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.
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I don't let my religious world get too complicated.
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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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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
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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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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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But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim.
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The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it.
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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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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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.