Bono Quotes

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• Music can change the world because it can change people.
• 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…
• To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
• 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…
• My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
• My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
• The less you know, the more you believe.
• Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
• 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,…
• Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free…
• Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to…
• 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's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
• We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
• 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…
• Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
• Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
• God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
• You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
• You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend…

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