U2 Quotes
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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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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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Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.
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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'm the man that brought you the mullet.
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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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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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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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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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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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I don't like the name, U2, actually.
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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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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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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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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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There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.
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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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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
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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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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 French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.
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We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.