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Famous Quotes By Bono

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Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die. — Bono

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There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock. — Bono

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If your heart was hard, that would be better / You could only break it once or twice / After that it would be rid of blood and you could let it turn to ice. — Bono

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I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays ... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way. — Bono

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God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion. — Bono

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Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle ... and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke. — Bono

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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. — Bono

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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them. — Bono

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One Life, with each other, Sisters, Brothers... — Bono

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Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in the confusion. But you don't see the full picture. That's the point. That's what faith is. You can't see it. It comes back to instinct. Faith is just up the street. Faith and instinct, you can't just rely on them. You have to beat them up. You have to pummel them to make sure they can withstand it, to make sure they can be trusted. — Bono

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What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. — Bono

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I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that. — Bono

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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! — Bono

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A degree of narcissism is necessary, I suppose, to look in the pool to see your reflection. (Bono) — Bono

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It's not only joy as an act of defiance; it's business as usual as an act of defiance. This is just: Do your thing. — Bono

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Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics. — Bono

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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously. — Bono

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Rock stars are good at making noise. — Bono

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It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio. — Bono

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You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life ... but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing. — Bono

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So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality. — Bono

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God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them. — Bono

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The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you. — Bono

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The lyrics aren't literature. they're just part of the story. — Bono

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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. — Bono

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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. — Bono

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America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy. — Bono

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Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die. — Bono

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You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time. — Bono

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Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know. — Bono

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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God. — Bono

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Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be. — Bono

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Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children. — Bono

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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater. — Bono

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I'm actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular. — Bono

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Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit. — Bono

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David was "a star, the Elvis of the Bible." An unusually for such a rockstar with his lust for power, lust for women, lust for life, he had humility of one who knew his gift work harder than he ever would. — Bono

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I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times. — Bono

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I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first. — Bono

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The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually. — Bono

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The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious. — Bono

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Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together. — Bono

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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. — Bono

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People who know our music, they know who you are. They've been in the dark room, they know you better than your best friend, because you don't sing like that to your best friend, you don't sing in their ear. — Bono

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I'm the man that brought you the mullet. — Bono

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What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music. — Bono

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Rock music is niche. — Bono

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It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition. — Bono

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Africa will thrive. — Bono

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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali. — Bono

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I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that. — Bono

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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. — Bono

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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. — Bono

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It's very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be. — Bono

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U2 is an original species ... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone. — Bono

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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. — Bono

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But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power. — Bono

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Laughter is eternity if joy is real. — Bono

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It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star.
I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it. — Bono

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When those people get up at the Grammys and say, "I thank God", I always imagine God going, "Oh, don't, please don't thank me for that one. Please, oh, that's an awful one! Don't thank me for that - that's a piece of crap !" — Bono

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Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed. — Bono

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It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head. — Bono

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I think that the camera loves peopke who ... loathe the camera (Bono) — Bono

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Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter. — Bono

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It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others. — Bono

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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. — Bono

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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross. — Bono

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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do. — Bono

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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. — Bono

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So what you're left with is: either Christ was who He said He was - the Messiah - or a complete nutcase. I mean, we're talking nutcase on the level of Charles Manson. - Bono on whether Jesus was Son of God was far-fetched. — Bono

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And I can't tell the difference between ABC News, Hill Street Blues
And a preacher on the old time gospel hour
Stealing money from the sick and the old
Well the God I believe in isn't short of cash, mister! — Bono

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We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can — Bono

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Whenever I see grace, I'm moved. — Bono

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I want to run
I want to hide
I want to tear down the walls
That hold me inside
I want to reach out
And touch the flame
Where the streets have no name — Bono

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The most profound voice of any musician I have ever heard. Joe (Strummer) took his message to the world, and the world listened. He managed to influence more than one generation with his innovative and determined manner, and I am not alone in repeatedly turning to his thoughts and lyrics when searching for inspiration. The Clash was the greatest rock band. They wrote the rule book for U2. — Bono

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The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated. — Bono

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Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness. — Bono

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The world is more malleable than you think, and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. — Bono

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I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head. — Bono

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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America. — Bono

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Even though I'm a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back. — Bono

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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people. — Bono

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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief. — Bono

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Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it. — Bono

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I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic. — Bono

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The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart. — Bono

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I don't like the name, U2, actually. — Bono

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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. — Bono

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I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary. — Bono

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The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian. — Bono

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I am a Christian - but sometimes I feel very removed from Christianity. The Jesus Christ that I believe in was the man who turned over the tables in the temple and threw the money-changers out - substitute T.V. evangelists if you like ... why in the West, do we spend so much money on extending the arms race instead of wiping out malaria, which could be eradicated given ten minutes worth of the world's arm budget? To me, we are living in the most un-Christian times. When I see these racketeers, the snake-oil salesmen on these right-winged television stations, asking for not your $20.00, or your $50.00, but your $100.00 in the name of Jesus Christ, I just want to throw up!! — Bono

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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. — Bono

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You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else. — Bono

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There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them. — Bono

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I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks. — Bono

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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation. — Bono

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As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both. — Bono

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When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy' ... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that. — Bono

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blessed are the stupid who can dream — Bono

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You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS. — Bono