In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
BONOLet’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
More Bono Quotes
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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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The great gifts of models are not that they’re more beautiful than the next person, it’s that they’re able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
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If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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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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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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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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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.
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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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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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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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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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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 less you know, the more you believe.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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