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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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Bono
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 10
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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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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Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.
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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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Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
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Perspective is the cure for depression.
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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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If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
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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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It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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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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Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.
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I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.
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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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