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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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Bono
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 10
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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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Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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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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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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When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
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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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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 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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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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The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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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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Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.
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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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It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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