Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
BONOYou’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
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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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As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
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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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The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.
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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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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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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