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Quotes from PENN Address — Bono

born 1960 Ireland

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13 quotes

America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility.

PENN Address (2004)

The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

PENN Address (2004)

Sing the melody line you hear in your own head. Remember, you don't owe anybody any explanations, you don't owe your parents any explanations, you don't owe your professors any explanations.

PENN Address (2004)

What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?

PENN Address (2004)

I didn't expect change to come so slow, so agonizingly slow.

PENN Address (2004)

That's not a cause, that's an emergency.

PENN Address (2004)

Don't get me too excited because I use four letter words when I get excited.

PENN Address (2004)

We love the crackle and the hustle, we love the spirit that gives the finger to fate, the spirit that says there's no hurdle we can't clear and no problem we can't fix.

PENN Address (2004)

Well to me betraying the age means exposing its conceits, it's foibles; it's phony moral certitudes. It means telling the secrets of the age and facing harsher truths.

PENN Address (2004)

Every era has its defining struggle and the fate of Africa is one of ours. It's not the only one, but in the history books it's easily going to make the top five, what we did or what we did not do.

PENN Address (2004)

My name is Bono and I am a rock star.

PENN Address (2004)

Remember what John Adams said about Ben Franklin, "He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures but rather seems to think us too irresolute."
Well, this is the time for bold measures.

PENN Address (2004)

It's a fact, the economists confirm it. It's an expensive fact but, cheaper than say the Marshall Plan that saved Europe from communism and fascism. And cheaper I would argue than fighting wave after wave of terrorism's new recruits.

PENN Address (2004)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bono (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.