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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.
Bono
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Bono
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 10
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Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.
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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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I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.
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I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.
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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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What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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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If I don't understand it, it must be art.
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Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.
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The human heart is greedy it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.
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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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