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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

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.
BONO

Darkness Song Writing
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.
BONO

Blessed Wife Years
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
The great gifts of models are not that they’re more beautiful than the next person, it’s that they’re able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
BONO

Able Beautiful Self
It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
BONO

Cynical Sweet Teeth
When those people get up at the Grammys and say, “I thank God”, I always imagine God going, “Oh, don’t, please don’t thank me for that one. Please, oh, that’s an awful one! Don’t thank me for that – that’s a piece of crap !”
BONO

God People Pieces Thank
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.
BONO

Concerts Country Debt World
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.
BONO

Birthday Dream Record See Song
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.
BONO

Believe Book War
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
Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
BONO

Inspirational Life Positive
Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
BONO

God Sometimes Way
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
BONO

Madness People Thinking
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship.
BONO

Hands Jesus Looks
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.
BONO

Culture Rocks Stars

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