Famous Quotes

Quotes by Bono

• A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.
• Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.
• Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
• 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.
• Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
• 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.
• Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
• Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.
• Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
• Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
• I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.
• I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.
• I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.
• I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
• If you never change your mind, why have one?
• In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
• In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
• It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
• It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.
• Logic will never change emotion or perception.
• Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
• Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
• Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
• Music can change the world because it can change people.
• Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
• Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
• Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
• 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.
• Rock music is niche.
• Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.
• So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
• Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
• Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
• The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
• The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
• To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
• U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
• We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
• What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
• 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.
• When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
• With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.
• 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.
• You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.