Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
BONOThe idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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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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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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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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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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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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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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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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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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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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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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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
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