U2 Quotes
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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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Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
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What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it.
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There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.
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I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.
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To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel. On your knees, boy...
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I'm the man that brought you the mullet.
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I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn't mean tjat I don't know it's there.
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I don't like the name, U2, actually.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.
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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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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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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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Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
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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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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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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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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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It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
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It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.