I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
BONOIf I don’t understand it, it must be art.
More Bono Quotes
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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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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
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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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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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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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As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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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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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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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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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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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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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 annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
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