You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life…but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what’s missing.
BONOThe extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
More Bono Quotes
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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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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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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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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You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
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It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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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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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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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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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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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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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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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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