It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
BONOI will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
More Bono Quotes
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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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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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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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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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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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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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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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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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I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
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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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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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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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