Bono Quotes - Page 5

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• Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.

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  Jesus, World, Helping

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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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  Sweet, Cynical, Teeth

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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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  Kissing, Past, Ducks

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• I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.

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  Christian, Thinking, Fire

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

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  Oil, Cost, Coal

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• It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

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  Stars, Rocks, Culture

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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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  Country, Thinking, Digging

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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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  Defense, World, Homework

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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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  Artist, Technology, Thinking

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• It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.

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  Blessing, Weakness, Looks

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• At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

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  Philosophy, Heart, Annoying

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• Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

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  Grief, Inspiration, Artist

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• I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

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  Stars, Rocks, Catholic

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• The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.

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  Beautiful, Self, Able

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• I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I don't think of myself as a celebrity per se.

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  Thinking, Would Be, Causes

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• I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn't mean tjat I don't know it's there. (Bono)

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  Mean, People, Darkness

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• I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.

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  Issues, People, Divides

  "Bono Bites Back". Interview with Adam Block, www.motherjones.com. May 1, 1989.

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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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  Watches, Victim, Aids

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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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  Thinking, Understanding, Corporations

  "Bono: 'There's a difference between cosying up to power and being close to power'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

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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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  Pain, Real, Justice

  Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast, delivered 2 February 2006, The Hilton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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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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  Morning, Wake Up, Noble

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• U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

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  Wife, Aids, Ethiopia

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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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  Emergencies, Done, Development

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• There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

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  Song, Thinking, Rocks

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

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  Home, People, World

  "The Resource Miracle" by Bono, content.time.com. May 28, 2012.

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