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Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.
Bono
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Bono
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 10
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Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.
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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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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.
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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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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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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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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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I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.
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I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.
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Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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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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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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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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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.
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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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