If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
BONOChristians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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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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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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It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty,
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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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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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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
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The great gifts of models are not that they’re more beautiful than the next person, it’s that they’re able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
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For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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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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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
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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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Sadly, 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.
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