To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
BONOSadly, 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.
More Bono Quotes
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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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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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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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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.
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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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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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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life…but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what’s missing.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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