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Bono

Profession : Singer

Birth : May 10, 1960

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

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

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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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Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easily... When people say, you know, 'Good teacher', 'Prophet', 'Really nice guy' ... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

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Music can change the world because it can change people.

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Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

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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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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.

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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

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America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

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The less you know, the more you believe.

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The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

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You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

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My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

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

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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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What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.

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