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Bono

Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman

Lived from: 1960 -

Category: Music | Business and entrepreneurs | Politics

Born: 10 may 1960

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  • Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.
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  • God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. 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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  • God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
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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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn't quite know what to do about it. At a certain point, I felt God is not looking for alms. God is looking for action.
    Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002
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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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  • 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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  • It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
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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, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'
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  • It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
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  • It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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  • Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
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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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  • Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
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  • My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
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  • My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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  • Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
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