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Bono Quotes

Irish - Musician | May 10, 1960 -

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.

Government Oil Two Nation Taxes

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Thought Questions Wrong Answers Had

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Gift You Greatest Gift Person Give

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

Writing Song Doing Help Know Seem

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

God Age History Fire War Believe

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

Wife Blessed Rich Band Old Always

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.

Father People Me Doing You Person

I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

Home Live Year Go Celebrity Missing

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.

World Homework Admit Meeting Boring

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Music Time Words People Think Know

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

Heart Philosophy I Can Tax Irish

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

Children Health Roads Saying Believe

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