Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
BONOEvery artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
More Bono Quotes
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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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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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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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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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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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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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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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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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.
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The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
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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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