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.
BONOFacts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
More Bono Quotes
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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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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.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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The 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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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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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that’s what was in our head for ‘Get On Your Boots.’ But actually, the song is much more punk rock.
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When those people get up at the Grammys and say, “I thank God”, I always imagine God going, “Oh, don’t, please don’t thank me for that one. Please, oh, that’s an awful one! Don’t thank me for that – that’s a piece of crap !”
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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