Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.
BONOIn my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
More Bono Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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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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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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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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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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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.
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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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I’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.
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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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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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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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