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.
BONOWe thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
More Bono Quotes
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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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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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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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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.
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For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
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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.
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It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty,
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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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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
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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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U2 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.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.
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