U2 Quotes
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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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Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
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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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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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Perspective is the cure for depression.
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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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Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
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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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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it.
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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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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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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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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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Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.
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I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.
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America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
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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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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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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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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
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If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.