U2 Quotes
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The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.
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Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke.
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Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
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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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God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
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As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.
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Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
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Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.
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Perspective is the cure for depression.
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It was a pretty special couple of years. I mean it was a pretty mad couple of years where reality and fantasy and everything got kinda mixed up big time.
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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.
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.
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I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.
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I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.