Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
BONOWhen 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.
More Bono Quotes
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The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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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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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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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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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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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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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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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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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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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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