U2 Quotes
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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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Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
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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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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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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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It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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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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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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I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.
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I'm the man that brought you the mullet.
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Bowie was much more responsible for the aesthetic of punk rock than he's been given credit for, like, in fact, most interesting things in the Seventies and Eighties.
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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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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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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it.
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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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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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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U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.
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Perspective is the cure for depression.
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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
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Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
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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.