Music can change the world because it can change people.
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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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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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.
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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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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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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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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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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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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 so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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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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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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