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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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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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I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.
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My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
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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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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.
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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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I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.
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The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog.
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Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
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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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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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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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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
Bono
Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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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.
Bono
It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
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