Top 100 Quotes About Bono
#1. As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.
Isaac Brock
#3. I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of good news and love and comfort and hope across through people like us, ordinary people, or extraordinary people like Bono.
Philip Yancey
#4. By the same token, I think news has more and more of a pro bono aspect to all the networks. When we do our election coverages throughout this coming year, it's not a money-maker for us. It is more of a public service situation.
Leslie Moonves
#5. Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided
with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
P. J. O'Rourke
#6. A degree of narcissism is necessary, I suppose, to look in the pool to see your reflection. (Bono)
Bono
#7. The Latin term pro bono, as most attorneys will attest, roughly translated means for boneheads and applies to work done without charge.
Sue Grafton
#8. De Bono argues that the West's tradition of settling disagreement by debate or argument is an example of overreliance on logic.
Steve Volk
#9. Bono give you any terms?"
"Me, the Crusader, and you. Tonight."
How nice. A party for the top three on the upir's most wanted list.
Ilona Andrews
#10. There's no way the person who made these lists actually has kids. They should be shot. And at this moment, I would defend the person who shoots them, pro bono. Just saying.
Emma Chase
#11. I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.
Liam Neeson
#12. Created for MTV in 1990, the sharply observed, pop-conscious Ben Stiller Show - featuring its star's lacerating impersonations of Bono, Tom Cruise, and Eddie Munster, among others - subsequently moved to Fox TV and copped an Emmy for writing.
Manohla Dargis
#14. I think that the camera loves peopke who ... loathe the camera (Bono)
Bono
#15. If Oprah, Steven Spielberg and Bono had a baby, I would be that baby.
Jason Russell
#16. Fucking pro bono work. Going to get me killed one day.
Jennifer Estep
#17. Once in a while, I like to polish my halo by taking on a case pro bono.
Dana Stabenow
#18. And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.
Fred Thompson
#19. Malum quidem nullum esse sine aliquo bono, Tin noted in the journal he was sporadically keeping then. Every cloud has a silver lining.
Margaret Atwood
#20. I've had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger and disease around the world. Bono is an Irishman and a great humanitarian. And I remember him telling me of his admiration for America.
Mike Huckabee
#21. It's nice that established and emerging stars agree to appear in ambitious low-budget films. Such pro-bono work gives the movie a higher profile and the actors a potentially more distinguished resume.
Richard Corliss
#22. 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)
Bono
#23. Is it really 'pro bono' if a lawyer takes your case in exchange for explosives?
-Captain Hartung
Howard Tayler
#24. I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could.
Eddie Vedder
#25. Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.
The Edge
#26. I look in the mirror and think, 'I don't look like a rock star.' I talked about this with Bono and we looked at each other and decided we look like a pair of bricklayers.
Billy Joel
#27. Bono actually gets a lot of substantial work done. The guy really does put a lot of things together and, while I'm not a fan of his music, I greatly applaud his humanitarian efforts.
Henry Rollins
#28. I tell you, Bono may have a point. South Africa needs a Walmart.
Rush Limbaugh
#29. I truly enjoy Bono. I think he is an amazing person; I love him.
Mary J. Blige
#30. I mean, it's so normal for everybody to have a huge ego, it's great. It's great. Otherwise, everybody would act like Bono, you know, really big.
Kim Deal
#32. There are few people who define the word, 'rock star' better than U2's Bono. He's revered the world over not just for leading one of the biggest bands ever, but for his very public work on behalf of the underprivileged in Africa.
Daryn Kagan
#33. We allow each other to pursue our goals. I wouldn't want to be married to someone who was not happy with what they were doing with their life and Bono wouldn't either.
Ali Hewson
#34. If Bono can release an album out of nowhere then so can I!
Thom Yorke
#35. What is the difference between God and Bono? God doesn't wander down Grafton Street thinking he's Bono.
Louis Walsh
#36. Bono is my inspiration - not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren't just put on this earth to sell records. Maybe it's because of my upbringing, but I do consider myself a moral guy.
Jesse McCartney
#37. There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused.
Edmund Burke
#38. Social activism has gone mainstream. A new generation of philanthropic leaders such as Bill and Melinda Gates, and Bono are providing inspiration, guidance, and billions of dollars through their global foundations.
Willow Bay
#39. You watch Bono in a room - and we're talking about a room of thousands swarming around him - he'll take every single person and make that moment about them. You can pat him on the back or pull his arm, he's not looking away from the person he's talking to.
George Stroumboulopoulos
#40. It seems to me the only pertinent question is: cui bono? It is clear that the size of the privileged strata as a percentage of the whole has grown significantly under historical capitalism. And for these people, the world they know is better on the whole than any their earlier counterparts knew.
Immanuel Wallerstein
#41. I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.
Alicia Keys
#42. I spent 25 years clearly understanding that I'm not gonna meet Bono or the Edge. But then it happened at the Grammys when we were all backstage and I just about fell out of my shoes.
Kristian Bush
#43. I don't know if watching Chaz Bono will turn your kids into transsexuals, but I'm pretty sure that letting them watch Keith Ablow will turn them into assholes
Lewis Black
#44. If I'm in the stands at a U2 concert watching Bono, how can I capture this moment without interrupting it and making it fake?
Casey Neistat
#45. Irish rock star Bono has said, Grace defies reason and logic. Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
Shane Claiborne
#46. Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono. I mean it's ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
Adam Savage
#47. I've met so many of my idols, but the one person that has eluded me is Bono. But because he's done 'Spider-Man,' I keep thinking maybe, through a Broadway connection, somehow our paths will eventually merge.
Idina Menzel
#48. I hear it, can actually feel, can even make out the letters of the message hovering above Bono's head in orange wavy letters: I ... am ... the ... devil ... and I am ... just ... like ... you ...
Bret Easton Ellis
#49. Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling.
Robin S
#50. I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation.
David Bowie
#51. Bono has commented often that U2 did everything the wrong way around. Other bands started singing about girls and then found the issues in the cosmos and started singing about God; U2 started singing about God and eventually ended up doing a love album.
Steve Stockman
#52. Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?
Jane McGonigal
#53. Your dream might not be as extreme as Bono's, but like him you may meet yours before you're ready to run after it.
Jon Acuff
#54. I don't think you have to go out and become Secretary of State or be Bono but I think it's to let people know that whatever they do in their life that that's good.
Maria Shriver
#55. I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly, or playing at the Brandenburg Gate with Bono.
Jay-Z
#56. Bono and Clayton had such a great time that the band paid homage to Cash in their Rattle and Hum album package with a huge photo of them in the Sun studio just beneath a framed photo of Phillips and Cash. In the early weeks of 1993, Bono was working
Robert Hilburn
#57. I am really proud of what I have done for cancer awareness, but do I feel like Bono? No.
Andy Rourke
#58. I was just talking to Bono the other day, and he was like, "Are you doing shows?" I've just been off the road for a month-and-a-half, and he was like, "You lucky girl."
Alicia Keys
#59. There was no point denying it. I lived for the word and everybody knew it, and for Johnny my stories were always pro bono. A gift for the bonehead.
Pete Pescatore
#60. Bono as we all know, is in love with the world, he's enamoured by it. I'm enraged by it. He wants to give the world a great big hug, I want to punch its lights out.
Bob Geldof
#61. I am not a Jew for Jesus but I am definitely a Jew for Christmas. Christmas is one of the best things you Christians have given us, along with mac and cheese, Bono, croquet and politeness.
David Brooks
#62. When I met Bono at the Cannes Film festival while I was there for the film 'United 93,' he said to me, 'That's a great film, brother. Thank you for your courage in making it.' I plotzed.
David Alan Basche
#63. I remember when we did our first read-through, Sonny [Bono] looks at the script and he goes, 'Okay, I'll see you guys later. Chai-ay-oh!' And I said, 'It's ciao! Aren't you Italian? C-i-a-o doesn't spell chai-ay-oh.' [Laughs.] Sonny's dead, so he won't be embarrassed if I tell that story.
Teri Garr
#64. Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes ... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber ... they're listening to poetry.
Maya Angelou
#65. Bono? Who the hell is that?
Redman
#66. So what you're left with is: either Christ was who He said He was - the Messiah - or a complete nutcase. I mean, we're talking nutcase on the level of Charles Manson. - Bono on whether Jesus was Son of God was far-fetched.
Bono
#67. If Bono left, we could carry on. If I left, we'd be screwed.
Larry Mullen Jr.
#68. I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week.
Gavin Friday
#69. Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
Bono
#70. Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Edward De Bono
#71. An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Edward De Bono
#72. Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.
Bono
#73. A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
Edward De Bono
#74. People who know our music, they know who you are. They've been in the dark room, they know you better than your best friend, because you don't sing like that to your best friend, you don't sing in their ear.
Bono
#75. People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.
Sonny Bono
#76. You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper
Edward De Bono
#77. I don't like the name, U2, actually.
Bono
#78. In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
Bono
#79. If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
Edward De Bono
#81. U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
Bono
#82. Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.
Sonny Bono
#83. Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
Edward De Bono
#84. What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
Bono
#85. The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
Edward De Bono
#86. A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family.
Chaz Bono
#87. Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
Bono
#88. The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
Edward De Bono
#89. I can't change the world but I can change the world in me.
Bono
#90. Christians are hard to tolerate; I don't know how Jesus does it
Bono
#91. If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
Bono
#93. Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
Edward De Bono
#94. Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward De Bono
#95. The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
Edward De Bono
#96. I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
Bono
#97. If you understand the system you can design appropriate action.
Edward De Bono
#98. So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
Bono
#99. Lateral thinking ... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
Edward De Bono
#100. In 80% of Socrates' dialogues there was no constructive outcome. He saw his role as simply pointing out what was wrong.
Edward De Bono
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