"Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world."
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"If I don't understand it, it must be art."
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"We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can"
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"Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud."
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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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"I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness."
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"In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim"
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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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"Laughter is eternity if joy is real."
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"For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment."
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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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"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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"U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone."
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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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"Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another."
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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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"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."
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"The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you."
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"In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience."
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"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."
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