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.
BONOI’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.
More Bono Quotes
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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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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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It’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.
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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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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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.
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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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The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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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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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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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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