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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.
Bono U2 -
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.
Bono U2
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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.
David Howell Evans U2 -
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.
Bono U2 -
I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.
Bono U2 -
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.
Bono U2 -
I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.
Bono U2 -
America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
Bono U2
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I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that... we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and... preposterous.
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Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.
Bono U2 -
Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
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But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.
Bono U2 -
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono U2 -
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.
Bono U2
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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.'
Bono U2 -
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.
Bono U2 -
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.
Bono U2 -
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?
Bono U2 -
The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
Bono U2 -
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.
Bono U2
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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.
Bono U2 -
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.
Bono U2 -
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.
Bono U2 -
Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
Bono U2