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.
BONOStop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
More Bono Quotes
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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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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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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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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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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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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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 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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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
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The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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