Bono: Trending quotes (page 6)

“It's not a hill it's a mountain, as you start out the climb”

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I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
Lyrics, No Line On The Horizon (2009)

Mountain

“Africa makes a mockery of what we say, at least what I say, about equality and questions our pieties and our commitments because there's no way to look at what's happening over there and it's effect on all of us and conclude that we actually consider Africans as our equals before God. There is no chance.”

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PENN Address (2004)

God , Way , Question , Chance

“What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow”

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"Beautiful Day"
Lyrics, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)

Feeling

“We can be the generation that no longer accepts that an accident of latitude determines whether a child lives or dies. But will we be that generation?”

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Foreword to The End of Poverty (2005) by Jeffrey Sachs

“Can you hear me when I sing?
You're the reason I sing.
You're the reason the opera is in me
Well, hey now
Still got to let you know
A house just don't make a home
Don't leave me here alone”

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"Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)

Home , Singing , Housing

“I have to come clean; I've broken a lot of laws, and the ones I haven't I've certainly thought about. I have sinned in thought, word, and deed. God forgive me. Actually God forgave me, but why would you? I'm here getting a doctorate, getting respectable, getting in the good graces of the powers that be, I hope it sends you students a powerful message: Crime does pay.”

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PENN Address (2004)

God , Law , Hope , Forgiveness

“A man will rise, a man will fall. From the shear face of love like a fly from the wall”

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"The Fly"
Lyrics, Achtung Baby (1991)

Love , Flying

“The thing about The Dubliners is — line'em up, the hardest rock'n'roll bands in the world, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Oasis, Nirvana, U2 — we're all a bunch of girls next to The Dubliners.”

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As quoted on Ronnie Drew (2008), talking about Irish folk band The Dubliners

World , Girl

“We're one but we're not the same
We get to carry each other, carry each other”

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"One"
Lyrics, Achtung Baby (1991)

“Great ideas and great melodies have a lot in common”

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CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)

Idea

“Walk on, walk on
What you got they can't steal it
No they can't even feel it
Walk on, walk on…
Stay safe tonight.”

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Lyrics, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000), Walk On

Feeling

“There's many lost but, tell me, who has won?”

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"Sunday Bloody Sunday"
Lyrics, War (1983)

“We're gonna make it all the way to the light,
but I know i'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight”

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I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
Lyrics, No Line On The Horizon (2009)

Way , Light

“I really, really do believe it. I just want you to know, I think this is obvious, but I'm not really going in for the warm fuzzy feeling thing, I'm not a hippy, I do not have flowers in my hair, I come from punk rock, The Clash wore army boots not Birkenstocks. I believe America can do this! I believe that this generation can do this. In fact I want to hear an argument about why we shouldn't.”

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PENN Address (2004)

Feeling , Flowers , Thinking

“When John Lennon sings, "Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open" — these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.”

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Rolling Stone interview (2005)

Love , Life , People , Singing

“And though your soul it can't be bought, your mind can wander. I can feel your love teaching me how, how to kneel.”

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"Vertigo"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)

Love , Feeling , Soul

“Well, here we are, the Irish in America. The Irish have been coming to America for years, going back to the great famine when the Irish were on the run from starvation and a British Government that couldn't care less. Right up to today, you know, there are more Irish immigrants here in America today than ever — some illegal, some legal. A lot of them are just running from high unemployment, some run from the Troubles in Northern Ireland, from the hatred of the H Blocks, torture. Others from wild acts of terrorism like we had today in a town called Enniskillen, where eleven people lie dead, and many more injured, on a Sunday Bloody Sunday.”

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Statements made before a live performance of Sunday Bloody Sunday, a song first recorded on the U2 album War (1983)
Rattle and Hum (1987)

People , Lie , Dead

“It's a beautiful day…
Don't let it get away”

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"Beautiful Day"
Lyrics, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)

Beauty

“How long, how long must we sing this song?”

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"Sunday Bloody Sunday"
Lyrics, War (1983)

Singing

“religion is the artifice, you know, the building, after God has left it sometimes, like Elvis has left the building. You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.”

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CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)

God , People , Religion , Thinking