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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Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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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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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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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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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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It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it.
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I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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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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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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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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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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The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
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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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America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
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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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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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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
