Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
BONODistance 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.
More Bono Quotes
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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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 extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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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 put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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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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Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
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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.
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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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It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
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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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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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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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