Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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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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.
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God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
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I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.
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Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
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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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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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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
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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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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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I’m a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I’ve been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
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It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty,
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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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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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