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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Bono
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Bono
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 10
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'
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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.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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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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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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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.
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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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Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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The human heart is greedy it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.
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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
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Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.
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