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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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Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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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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When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
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There is a root arrogance in any writer a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.
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When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed you see something that you can't un-see.
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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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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
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Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.
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God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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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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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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