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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.

Bono

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
BONO

Inspire Music Songs
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.
BONO

Defense Homework World
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.
BONO

Breathing Christian Learn Sure
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.
BONO

Country People Resistance
It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
BONO

Ambition Chivalry Growth
Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
BONO

Asking Blessed God
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
BONO

Book Giving Persons
Rock stars are good at making noise.
BONO

Noise Rocks Stars
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
BONO

Coal Cost Oil
In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
BONO

General Much People Rich
Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
BONO

Inspirational Life Positive
In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
BONO

Rocks Stars Views
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.
BONO

Music Positive Song
When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
BONO

Commodities Oil School Two
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.
BONO

Believe Children Ideas
Music can change the world because it can change people.
BONO

Change Inspirational Music

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