"I get to hear the really good or……" — Bono
"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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144 Quotes by Bono
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.…
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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe…
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one…
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My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between…
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become…
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
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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…
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