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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.

Bono

When those people get up at the Grammys and say, “I thank God”, I always imagine God going, “Oh, don’t, please don’t thank me for that one. Please, oh, that’s an awful one! Don’t thank me for that – that’s a piece of crap !”
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God People Pieces Thank
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
Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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Joy Laughter Real
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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Movie Ridiculous Silly Stars
Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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Asking Blessed God
I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
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Breathing Christian Learn Sure
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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Beautiful Being Respect Yourself
I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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Divides Issues People
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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Answer Perspective Questions Thoughtful
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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Believe Heart Views
In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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Rocks Stars Views
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
There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that’s what was in our head for ‘Get On Your Boots.’ But actually, the song is much more punk rock.
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Rocks Song Thinking
The less you know, the more you believe.
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Believe Favourite Humility
Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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Christian Jesus Tolerate
It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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Ambition Chivalry Growth

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