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.
BONOI put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
More Bono Quotes
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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.
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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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Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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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.
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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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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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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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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.
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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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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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I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
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What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.
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