Bono Quotes

I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.

A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.

Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better

Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.

A good design is not a democratic consensus.

You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper

Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.

Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.

The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.

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.

We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism.

Put your ego aside and play as a team.

Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.

We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.

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.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head.

The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.

Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

I came out around 25 publicly.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.

Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.

This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.