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.
BONOSub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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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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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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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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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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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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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 so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
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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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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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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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