U2 Quotes
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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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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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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's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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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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I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.
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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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Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
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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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Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.
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I'm never nervous.
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For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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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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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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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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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it.
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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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Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.
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The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
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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.
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America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
