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Bono

Profession : Singer

Birth : May 10, 1960

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

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What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

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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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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

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U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

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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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You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

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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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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

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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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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

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The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

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I'm the man that brought you the mullet.

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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

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I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

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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. I love that.

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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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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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Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.

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