U2 Quotes
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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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If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
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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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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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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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Perspective is the cure for depression.
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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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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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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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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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Until it's on the radio or online, it's not real. With U2, our album isn't finished until it's in the stores.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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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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But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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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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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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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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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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Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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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.
