U2 Quotes
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I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.
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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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Perspective is the cure for depression.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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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 really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.
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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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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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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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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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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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U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.
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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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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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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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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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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Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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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What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it.
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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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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
