Quotes by Bono - Page 4

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.
Bono / Singer
Jesus
Teacher
Good Teacher
Guy
Left
Nice
Nice Guy
Nuts
Prophet
Said
Good Teacher Good Teacher
Case
Challenge
Choice
Complete
Utter
Either
Say
Nut
Himself
People Say
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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.
Bono / Singer
Father
People
Trying
Always Me People
Actually
Associate
Call
Wrong
Street
Father Me People
Occasionally
Paul
Themselves
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Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.
Bono / Singer
Belief
Bible
Charismatic
Christian
Christian Church
Mistake
Rainbow
Right Wing
Suspicious
Traditional
Brush
Catholics
Jews
Systems
Tar
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I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
Bono / Singer
Christian
Contemporary
Fervent
Fire
Speak
Term
Thinking
Languages
Christians
Interface
Tongues
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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.
Bono / Singer
Jesus
Relationship
Easter
Access
Awe
Christ
Combination
Familiar
Hands
Horizontal
Looks
New Testament
Old Testament
Testament
Vertical
Worship
Across
Cross
Old
Hand
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Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.
Bono / Singer
Boring
Charter
Defense
Embarrassing
Homework
Institutions
Minutiae
Nations
United
United Nations
World
World Bank
Then
Admit
Report
Bank
Before
Read
Fred
Spot
Meeting
Sadly
Soft
Soft Spot
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What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.
Bono / Singer
Dream
Age
Technology
Ability
Believe
Bigger
Digital
Digital Age
Mp3
Revolution
Song
Turns
Much
Songs
Between
Doing
Closed
Dreaming
Excites
Players
Gap
Personally
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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.
Bono / Singer
Equality
Commitment
Concern
Farce
Fool
Honest
Ideas
Justice
Africa
Allowed
Questions
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Doubts
Happen
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God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
Bono / Singer
Inspirational
Children
Mother
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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?'
Bono / Singer
Future
Easier
Honesty
Might
Relevant
Stadiums
Successful
Thinking
Tricks
Future Will Know
Stay
Fill
Record
Popular
While
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The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue for example that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
Bono / Singer
Believe
Children
Ideas
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The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
Bono / Singer
Health
Example
Millions
Public Health
Believe I Believe Children
Health Believe I Believe
African
Argue
Public
Course
Entrepreneurs
For Example
Issue
Press
Roads
Saying
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Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.
Bono / Singer
Kings
Real
Thinking
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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.
Bono / Singer
Cutting
Loss
Song
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