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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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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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Movie Ridiculous Silly Stars
I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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Divides Issues People
Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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Home People World
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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Aids Ethiopia Wife
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
If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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Art Must Understand
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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Littles Lost Moments
If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
BONO

Islands Sea Taught
It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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Ambition Chivalry Growth
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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Answer Perspective Questions Thoughtful
Rock stars are good at making noise.
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Noise Rocks Stars
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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Bequeath Children Pops
Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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Building Enemy Happens
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
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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Despair Enemy Poverty
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.
BONO

Albums Artist Rolling

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