The less you know, the more you believe.
BONOIn general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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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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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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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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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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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 think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.
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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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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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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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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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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
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You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
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