The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
BONOCelebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
More Bono Quotes
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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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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.
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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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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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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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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad — I see it in myself. I know what I’m capable of. Good and bad. It’s very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn’t mean tjat I don’t know it’s there. (Bono)
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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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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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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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For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
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