Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes

Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easily... When people say, you know, 'Good teacher', 'Prophet', 'Really nice guy' ... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

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• You know I used to think the future was solid or fixed, something you inherited like an old building that you move into when the previous generation moves out or gets chased out. But it's not. The future is not fixed, it's fluid.

  

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  • Future

• What a city, what a night, what a crowd, what a bomb, what a mistake, what a wanker you have for a President.

  

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  • Night
  • City
  • Mistake

• Africa makes a mockery of what we say, at least what I say, about equality and questions our pieties and our commitments because there's no way to look at what's happening over there and it's effect on all of us and conclude that we actually consider Africans as our equals before God. There is no chance.

  

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  • God
  • Equality

• To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

  

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  • Respect
  • United
  • Great Thing

• We actually aren't able to play other people's songs. The one Stones song we tried to play was 'Jumpin' Jack Flash.' It was really bad. So we started writing our own - it was easier.

  

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  • People
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• It's a fact. So why aren't we pumping our fists in the air and cheering about it? Well probably because when we admit we can do something about it, we've got to do something about it. For the first time in history we have the know how, we have the cash, we have the lifesaving drugs, but do we have the will?

  

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  • Time
  • Why
  • History

• I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned - I'm Irish.

  

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  • Irish

• What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?

  

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  • Lies

• I'm the Imelda Marcos of sunglasses.... Very sensitive eyes to light. If somebody takes my photograph, I will see the flash for the rest of the day. My right eye swells up. I've a blockage there, so that my eyes go red a lot. So it's part vanity, it's part privacy and part sensitivity.

  

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  • Up
  • Light
  • Eyes

• What's interesting is, in the months leading up to this, I was probably at the lowest ebb in my life. I was feeling just teenage angst. I didn't know if I wanted to continue living - that kind of despair. I was praying to a God I didn't know was listening.

  

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  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

  

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  • World
  • Waiting

• 20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity. Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.

  

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  • Justice
  • Equality
  • Charity

• It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

  

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  • Studio
  • Privilege
  • Servants

• I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.

  

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  • Decisions
  • Nervous
  • Heads Of State

• 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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  • Government
  • Taxes
  • Schools

• In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

  

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  • Faith
  • Politicians
  • General People

• I really remember John Lennon's Imagine. I guess I'm twelve; that's one of my first albums. That really set fire to me. It was like he was whispering in your ear - his ideas of what's possible. Different ways of seeing the world.

  

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  • World
  • Different
  • Remember

• We can be the generation that no longer accepts that an accident of latitude determines whether a child lives or dies. But will we be that generation?

  

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• I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

  

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  • Confused
  • Singer
  • Interviewer

• God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

  

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  • I Love
  • God's Spirit
  • Religious Paradigm

• So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, 'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails.' Well at best I've got one of the two of those.

  

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  • Mind
  • Words
  • Law

• I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

  

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  • Music
  • I Think
  • ABBA

• I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

  

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  • Catholic
  • Guilt
  • Rock Star

• 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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  • God
  • Believe
  • Remembered