Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
BONOU2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
More Bono Quotes
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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.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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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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Even though I’m a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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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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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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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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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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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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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.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.
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