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Bono, full name Paul David Hewson, is an Irish singer, musician, and social activist. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band U2, which has achieved massive success globally since the 1980s. Bono is respected for his aggressive charity work and his commitment to addressing global issues.

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“David was "a star, the Elvis of the Bible." An unusually for such a rockstar with his lust for power, lust for women, lust for life, he had humility of one who knew his gift work harder than he ever would.”

Compassion Blessing Fame Grace Of God Charisma

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“Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.”

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“Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in the confusion. But you don't see the full picture. That's the point. That's what faith is. You can't see it. It comes back to instinct. Faith is just up the street. Faith and instinct, you can't just rely on them. You have to beat them up. You have to pummel them to make sure they can withstand it, to make sure they can be trusted.”

Faith Worry Doubt Anxiety Discipleship

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“The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dark. The reason I am interested in men of peace is because I'm not like them and would like to be. I'm not someone in real life who turns the other cheek.”

Inspiration Heroes Idealism Introspection Biography

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“One Life, with each other, Sisters, Brothers...”

Music Music Lyrics

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“Once we are born, we begin to forget The very reason we cane But you I'm sure I've met Long before the night the stars went out We're meeting up again”

Life Song Music Songs

Book:Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

Source: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“It's as if I have my own persona satan trolling at my shoulder, sowing doubt at every turn. The little divil sprays emotional graffiti all over the walls of my self-respect. But the little divil is me, so why would I put myself through this?”

Life Life Lessons Music Musician

Book:Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

Source: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“Someone has likened prayer to being on a rough sea in a small boat with no oars. All you have is a rope that, somewhere in the distance, is attached to the port.”

Life Life Lessons Music Musician

Book:Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

Source: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“Someone has likened prayer to being on a rough sea in a small boat with no oars. All you have is a rope that, somewhere in the distance, is attached to the port. With that rope you can pull yourself closer to God. Songs are my prayers.”

Faith Prayer Music Rock And Roll U2 Bono

Book:Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

Source: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions you've made that males you either a good or not a good chess player. It's not luck.”

Luck Chess Decisions

Book:Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas

Source: Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas

“Blind faith will not take you there, but it will get you started.”

Faith

Book:Surrender Bono Autobiography 40 Songs By Bono & Fight Thirty Years Not Quite at the Top By Harry Hill 2 Books Collection Set

Source: Surrender Bono Autobiography 40 Songs By Bono & Fight Thirty Years Not Quite at the Top By Harry Hill 2 Books Collection Set

“People who know our music, they know who you are. They've been in the dark room, they know you better than your best friend, because you don't sing like that to your best friend, you don't sing in their ear.”

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Book:Bono on Bono

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“The moment of surrender is the moment you choose to lose control of your life, the split second of powerlessness where you trust that some kind of "higher power" better be in charge, because you certainly aren't.”

Surrender U2 Bono

Book:Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

Source: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power.”

Surrender U2 Bono

Book:Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

Source: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church.”

Surrender U2 Bono

Book:Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

Source: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“The Bible Belt and its unchristian undertow leaving welts on the bare bottoms of unbelievers.”

Evangelical Unchristian

Book:Surrender Bono Autobiography 40 Songs By Bono & Fight Thirty Years Not Quite at the Top By Harry Hill 2 Books Collection Set

Source: Surrender Bono Autobiography 40 Songs By Bono & Fight Thirty Years Not Quite at the Top By Harry Hill 2 Books Collection Set

“The God I believe in isn't short on cash, mister.”

Religion Money Greed

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“One of the things that I picked up... was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way. Seeing what religious people [do] in the name of God...”

God Religion Religious Hypocrisy Religious Extremism Self Righteousness Religious Violence Religious Hypocrisy Selfrighteousness

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“El éxito debería llegar con una advertencia para la salud: para el adicto al trabajo y para quienes lo rodean.”

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Book:Surrender: 40 canciones, una historia / Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

Source: Surrender: 40 canciones, una historia / Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff.”

Influence Fame Activism

Book:Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

Source: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“We were inhabiting a space where it didn't feel like we had much company, a space critics might dismiss as a compromised middle, but I imagined as a radical center.”

Politics Activism Compromise

Book:Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

Source: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children.”

Children Pops

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“When those people get up at the Grammys and say, "I thank God", I always imagine God going, "Oh, don't, please don't thank me for that one. Please, oh, that's an awful one! Don't thank me for that - that's a piece of crap !"”

People Pieces Imagine Please Get Up Awful Thank God Crap

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“Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.”

World Helping Jesus This World Help Me

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“Music can change the world because it can change people.”

“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.”

World Want Inspirational Two Fun Stars Chance Rocks Instinct Having Fun Changing The World Rock Star

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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.”

“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.”

Looks Hands Jesus Christ Worship Crosses Access Familiar Combination Awe Testament New Testament Old Testament Vertical Horizontal

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

“My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.”

Inspirational Persons Has Beens Made Understanding Christ Simple Scripture

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“The less you know, the more you believe.”

Knows Believe Humility Favourite

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

Happens Left Enemy Building

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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.”

Ifs Needs Dream Age Wanted Used Song Turns Records Needed Aging Studios Excited Producers Used To Be Birthday Digital Gaps Doing You Laptops Digital Age 50th Birthday Turn Me Dreaming And Doing

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“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.”

Ifs World Doe Church This World Brother Conscience Distance Unity Consumerism Free Market Overconsumption Your Brother Being Free

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“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.”

Ifs Needs Fire Equal Standing Accepted Flames Continents Deep Down

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“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.”

Giving Trying Bigs Past Rocks Arms Kissing Ridiculous Absurd Ducks Rock N Roll Wrapping

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“It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.”

Ends Growth Ambition Chivalry Stasis

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

Answers Perspective Thoughtful Questioning Courtesy Right Questions Questions And Answers Asking The Right Questions

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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.”

Ifs Way Looks Ideas Happens Justice Doubt Honest Fool Happenings Commitment Concern Equality Piety Farce

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“Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.”

Ifs Giving Persons Book Greatest Gifts

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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.”

Made Today Amount Dad Overcoming My Dad Megalomania Megalomaniacs

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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.”

World Moving Spirit Religious Pace Paradigm

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“You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.”

Knows Hard Kids Company Knowing God Really Weird

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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.”

World Real Dream Action Strong Bits Exciting Very Strong Rolling Idealism Sleeves Detached Pragmatism Just A Dream Idealism And Realism Rolling Up

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“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.”

Thinking Country Wealth Rich Prosperity Wit Digging Get Rich Cursed Drilling

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

People Ifs Thinking Madness

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“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.”

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“Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.”

People Knows Firsts Littles Different Walking Fame Staring Staring At You

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“Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.”

People Thinking Knows Song Music Positive Eloquent

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“I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.”

Ifs Thinking Artist Moral Dangerous Duty Being True Cracks Baggage Cover Ups

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About the Author

Born: May 10, 1960
Known for: Singer
Quotes: 155

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Surrender: 40 Songs, One StoryRelated source material

Surrender Bono Autobiography 40 Songs By Bono & Fight Thirty Years Not Quite at the Top By Harry Hill 2 Books Collection SetRelated source material

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Surrender: 40 canciones, una historia / Surrender: 40 Songs, One StoryRelated source material

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