Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
BONOThe 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.
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 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.
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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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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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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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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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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The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
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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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U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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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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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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