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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Bono

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

Believe Children Ideas
Even though I’m a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.
BONO

Believer Nervous Watches
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.
BONO

Helping Song Writing
Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
BONO

Despair Enemy Poverty
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
BONO

Coal Cost Oil
You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
BONO

Aids Victim Watches
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
BONO

Beautiful Being Respect Yourself
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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Concerts Country Debt World
I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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Catholic Rocks Stars
The 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.
BONO

Eye Mean Ocean
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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Audience Hear Public Opinion
I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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House Moving Running
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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Inspire Music Songs
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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Awful Kind World
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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Artist Grief Inspiration
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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Cutting Loss Song

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