In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
BONOU2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
More Bono Quotes
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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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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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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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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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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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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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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.
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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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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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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.
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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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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad — I see it in myself. I know what I’m capable of. Good and bad. It’s very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn’t mean tjat I don’t know it’s there. (Bono)
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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