U2 Quotes
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The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
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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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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim.
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I don't let my religious world get too complicated.
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There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it.
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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.
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Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.
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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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The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.
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At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.
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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.
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Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
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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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Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
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Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later.