U2 Quotes
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U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.
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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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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.
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It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'
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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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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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Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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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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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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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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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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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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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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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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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.
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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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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.
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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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I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.
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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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What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it.
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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.
