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Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.
Bono
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Bono
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 10
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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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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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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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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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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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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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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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Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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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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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.
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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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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
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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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If I don't understand it, it must be art.
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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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