I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.
BONOHappy 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.
More Bono Quotes
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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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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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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 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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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.
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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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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.
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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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