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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.

Bono

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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Answer Perspective Questions Thoughtful
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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Honesty Successful Thinking
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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Country Digging Thinking
It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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Blessing Looks Weakness
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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Artist Grief Inspiration
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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Coal Cost Oil
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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Darkness Importance Mean People
Rock stars are good at making noise.
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Noise Rocks Stars
In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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General Much People Rich
It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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Cynical Sweet Teeth
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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God Opportunity Wasted
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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Concerts Country Debt World
The less you know, the more you believe.
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Believe Favourite Humility
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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Inspirational Simple Understanding
You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.
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Dream Real Strong
It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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Abandon Exposing Impossible Yourself

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