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?
BONOIt’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
More Bono Quotes
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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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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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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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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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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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 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.
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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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You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.
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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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I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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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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Everyone’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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