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.
BONOIt’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
More Bono Quotes
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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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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.
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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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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.
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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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.
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads.
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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