Quotes by Bono

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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  • Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
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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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  • Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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  • Remember what John Adams said about Ben Franklin, He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures but rather seems to think us too irresolute.
    Well, this is the time for bold measures.
    PENN Address (2004)
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  • Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
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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. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.
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  • Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.
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  • Sing the melody line you hear in your own head. Remember, you don't owe anybody any explanations, you don't owe your parents any explanations, you don't owe your professors any explanations.
    PENN Address (2004)
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  • 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.
    PENN Address (2004)
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  • So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
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  • Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
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  • Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.
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  • The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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  • The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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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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  • The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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  • The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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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. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
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  • The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.
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  • The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
    Rolling Stone interview (2005)
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