Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
BONOThe extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
More Bono Quotes
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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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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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
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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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The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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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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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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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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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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Everyone’s got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It’s a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one.
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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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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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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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Even though I’m a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.
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