Bono Quotes

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Bono

Profession : Singer

Birth : May 10, 1960

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

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I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

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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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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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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

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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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Rock music is niche.

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So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

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Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

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Africa will thrive.

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I'm never nervous.

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You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

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I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

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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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Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

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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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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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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

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