U2 Quotes
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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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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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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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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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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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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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The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.
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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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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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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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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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Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.
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Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.
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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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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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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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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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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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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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The job of art is to chase ugliness away.