The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
BONOIn general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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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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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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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.
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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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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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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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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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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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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