Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
BONOI’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.
More Bono Quotes
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
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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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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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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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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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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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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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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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Even though I’m a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.
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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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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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It’s quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I’d rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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