U2 Quotes
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Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
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I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.
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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 wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.
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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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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 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 extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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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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Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.
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Perspective is the cure for depression.
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For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.
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We spent a year trying to play one song, practising about four hours a week. Then we decided that if we really wanted to learn this song, we'd have to practice two days a week.
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It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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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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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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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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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U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.
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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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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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.