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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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.
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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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There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.
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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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I'm the man that brought you the mullet.
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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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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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I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.
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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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There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.
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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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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 extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
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U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.
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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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Perspective is the cure for depression.
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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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Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.