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.
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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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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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
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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 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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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.
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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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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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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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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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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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