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.
BONOU2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
More Bono Quotes
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads.
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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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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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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Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.
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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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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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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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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
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