Distance 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.
BONOThere’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
More Bono Quotes
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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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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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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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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 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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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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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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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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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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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.
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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.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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