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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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• Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

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  Dad, Overcoming, Today

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle - and not just in the sense of money, by the way. The Beatles are untouchable. That’s just a joke.

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  Boys, Way, Untouchables

  "Bono, Facebook IPO: U2 Singer To Become The World’s Richest Musician (UPDATED)" by Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2012.

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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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• There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

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  Roots, Arrogance, Arrogant

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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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• 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 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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• I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

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  Blessed, Years, Wife

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

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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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  Religious, Moving, Pace

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• I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

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  Home, Years, Missing

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• There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.

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  Artist, Finding Yourself, Knows

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• I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

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  Mother, Father, Sunday

  Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast, delivered 2 February 2006, The Hilton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.

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  Team, Technology, People

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• When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

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  School, Two, Oil

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• I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

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  War, Believe, Book

  Bono's remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 2, 2006.

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• As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

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  Believe, Heart, Views

  "Bono: 'There's a difference between cosying up to power and being close to power'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

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• What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

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  Ends, Pops, Folks

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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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  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually.

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  Father, People, Trying

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• It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'

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  Honesty, Successful, Thinking

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• Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

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  Thinking, People, Madness

  Hot Press Magazine, March 2000.

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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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  Birthday, Dream, Song

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