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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Bono

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.
BONO

Culture Rocks Stars
It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
BONO

Abandon Exposing Impossible Yourself
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.
BONO

Audience Hear Public Opinion
Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
BONO

Awful Kind World
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.
BONO

Hissing Life Living Missing
I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
BONO

House Moving Running
For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
BONO

Littles Lost Moments
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.
BONO

Believe Heart Views
Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
BONO

Movie Ridiculous Silly Stars
U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
BONO

Helping Song Writing
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.
BONO

Breathing Christian Learn Sure
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.
BONO

Believe Book War
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
BONO

Madness People Thinking
What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
BONO

Birthday Dream Record See Song
U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
BONO

Aids Ethiopia Wife
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
BONO

Coal Cost Oil

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

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