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.
BONOMarriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
More Bono Quotes
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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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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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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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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads.
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When those people get up at the Grammys and say, “I thank God”, I always imagine God going, “Oh, don’t, please don’t thank me for that one. Please, oh, that’s an awful one! Don’t thank me for that – that’s a piece of crap !”
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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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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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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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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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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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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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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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