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"I do see myself as a modern prophet." Bono Quotes
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Bono, born Paul David Hewson, is the lead singer for the rock band U2. He has become very outspoken on some worldy important issues. Here are some of his famous quotes.
| | What a city, what a night, what a crowd, what a bomb, what a mistake, what a wanker you have for a President. |
| | Don't get me too excited because I use four letter words when I get excited. |
| | The future is not fixed, it's fluid. |
| | The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. |
| | I'm wary of faith outside of actions. I'm wary of religiosity that ignores the wider world. |
| | All the best songs are co-written by God, y'know! |
| | At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action. |
| | A rock star is someone with a hole in his heart almost the size of his ego. |
| | Fear is the opposite of faith. |
| | Freedom has a scent like the top of a newborn baby's head. |
| | I do see myself as a modern prophet, it's true. Some people can't handle that. |
| | I don't think people should ever look like their hair has been ironed. |
| | I hope that my work — the activism — will be forgotten. Because I hope those problems will have gone away. |
| | I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after. |
| | I'm very secure with the fact that I'm not black. I'm white, pink and rosy. But I've got soul. |
| | If I am close to the music, and you are close to the music, we are close to each other. |
| | If you think this has gone to our heads, it's too late. |
| | It's not enough to rage against the lie...you've got to replace it with the truth. |
| | Music and activists working together can overcome the forces of economics and corporations. |
| | Music can change the world because it can change people. |
| | My heroes are all alive. I never have worshipped at that altar of burnt-out youth. |
| | My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. |
| | Our music is rooted in the feeling that much more is possible than you think. |
| | The less you know, the more you believe. |
| | We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong. |
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