Music can change the world because it can change people.
BONOEveryone’s got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It’s a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one.
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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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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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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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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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It’s quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I’d rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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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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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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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.
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U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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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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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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