Bono Quotes
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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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Bowie was much more responsible for the aesthetic of punk rock than he's been given credit for, like, in fact, most interesting things in the Seventies and Eighties.
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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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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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You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'
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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
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The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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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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America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
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You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
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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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Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.
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Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.
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Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.
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Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later.
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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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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.
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With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That's why we're such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, 'Are people interested?' But I think our band has something and they know we don't just put albums out. We do think about it.
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I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head.
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I don't let my religious world get too complicated.