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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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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 will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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Divides Issues People
The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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Albums Artist Rolling
Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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Inspiration Motivation People
U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
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Aids Ethiopia Wife
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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Inspirational Simple Understanding
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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Country Fire Flames Needs
I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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Catholic Rocks Stars
The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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Ghetto Rocks Self
There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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Art Mastery Retirement
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
I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.
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Artist Cracks Thinking
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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Bequeath Children Pops
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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Answer Perspective Questions Thoughtful
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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Madness People Thinking
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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Country Digging Thinking

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

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