"Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is."
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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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"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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"I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star."
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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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"My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ."
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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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"The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually."
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"There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you."
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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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"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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"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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"Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people."
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"The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart."
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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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