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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
Bono
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Bono
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 10
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Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.
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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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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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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.
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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
Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
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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.
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Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.
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If I don't understand it, it must be art.
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Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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
The less you know, the more you believe.
Bono
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.
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