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.
BONOThe 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.
More Bono Quotes
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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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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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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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If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.
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Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan.
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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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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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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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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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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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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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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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