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.
BONOIt’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.
More Bono Quotes
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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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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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Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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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 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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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’
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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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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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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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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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