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• Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

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  Baby, Son, Blow

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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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  Debt, World, Concerts

  "Bono: 'There's a difference between cosying up to power and being close to power'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

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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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  Dream, Hate, Two

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• To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel. On your knees, boy...

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  Hurt, Kissing, Boys

  "Song: Mysterious Ways (Achtung Baby)". November 25, 1991.

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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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  Public Opinion, Doe, Audience

  "Bono: 'There's a difference between cosying up to power and being close to power'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

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• Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

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  Kings, Real, Thinking

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• Rock stars are good at making noise.

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  Stars, Rocks, Noise

  "The lobbyist rock star", www.cnn.com. April 19, 2004.

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• Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

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  People, Different, Littles

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• U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

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  Best Work, Knows

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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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  Air, Poverty, Scripture

  Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast, delivered 2 February 2006, The Hilton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

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  People, Laughing, Ironic

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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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  Thinking, Gone Away, Problem

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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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  Impact, Decision, Nervous

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• Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.

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  Team, Technology, People

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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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  School, Two, Oil

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• U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

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  Emotional, Feelings, Originality

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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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  Ocean, Eye, Mean

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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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  Brother, Distance, Unity

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• Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.

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  Jesus, World, Helping

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• Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

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  Movie, Stars, Silly

  "In the Name of Love: On Bush, Blair, Bono, and Daring to Believe You Can Change the World" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2006.

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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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  Commitment, Equality, Ideas

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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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  Fire, Flames, Needs

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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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  Sweet, Cynical, Teeth

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• Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

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  Kissing, Past, Ducks

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• The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

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  Oil, Cost, Coal

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