Bono Quotes - Page 2

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• Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

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  Want, Selling, Selling Out

  Interview with Greg Kot, www.chicagotribune.com. May 13, 2005.

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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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  Christian, Powerful, Ideas

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• Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

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  Contradiction, Centre, Smack

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• It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

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  Ambition, Growth, Chivalry

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• I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.

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  Wish, Trying, Serious

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• You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.

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  Song, Cutting, Loss

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• Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.

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  Grace, Moved

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

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  Art, Ifs

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• I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

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  Song, Writing, Darkness

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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 of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

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  Jesus, Hands, Looks

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• For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.

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  Littles, Moments, Lost

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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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  Music, Song, Inspire

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• Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

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  Positive, Music, Song

  "BONO Profile: Unforgettable fire", www.cnn.com. 2001.

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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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  Kids, Knowing God, Company

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• When those people get up at the Grammys and say, "I thank God", I always imagine God going, "Oh, don't, please don't thank me for that one. Please, oh, that's an awful one! Don't thank me for that - that's a piece of crap !"

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  People, Thank God, Pieces

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• In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim

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  Dream, Swim, Sorrow

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• God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

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  Ideas, Might, Tiny

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• Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

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  World, Awful, Kind

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• The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

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  Stupid, Dear, Wells

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• When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

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  Teacher, Jesus, Nice

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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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  Heart, Color, Greed

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• Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

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  Book, Giving, Persons

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• At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

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  Inspirational, Action, Alms

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• The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

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