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• Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

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  Music, Rocks, Rock N Roll

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

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  Stupid, Dear, Wells

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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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  Littles, Moments, Lost

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• Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

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  Want, Selling, Selling Out

  Interview with Greg Kot, www.chicagotribune.com. May 13, 2005.

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

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  Ambition, Growth, Chivalry

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• God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

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  Inspirational, Mother, Children

  Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast, delivered 2 February 2006, The Hilton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.

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  Wish, Trying, Serious

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• The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

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  Christian, Powerful, Ideas

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

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  Roots, Arrogance, Arrogant

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• In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim

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  Dream, Swim, Sorrow

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• If I don't understand it, it must be art.

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  Art, Ifs

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• When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.

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  Children, Eye, Forever

  "Bono turns up the volume for social enterprise" by Joe Jervis, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.

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  Impossible, Exposing Yourself, Abandon

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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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  Music, Song, Inspire

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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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  Song, Writing, Darkness

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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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  Jesus, Hands, Looks

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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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  Ideas, Might, Tiny

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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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  Teacher, Jesus, Nice

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

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  Contradiction, Centre, Smack

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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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  Dad, Overcoming, Today

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

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  Blessed, Years, Wife

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• You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.

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  Song, Cutting, Loss

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• Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.

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  Grace, Moved

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• At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

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  Inspirational, Action, Alms

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

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  Inspirational, Simple, Understanding

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