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If I don't understand it, it must be art.

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Bono
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 10
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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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Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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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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It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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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.
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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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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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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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You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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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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Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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.
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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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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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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
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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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