- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 a great big kiss.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
- Greatest Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020
So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
- Extreme Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.
- Niche
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock music is niche.
- Nov 07, 2020
You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
- Nov 07, 2020
Africa will thrive.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm never nervous.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.
- Conservative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
- Global Village
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good Teacher
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 - those billionaire reports are a joke.
- Blessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
- Ghetto
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- Nov 07, 2020
As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.
- Deep Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020