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"Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die."
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"Music can change the world because it can change people."
Change

"Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist."
Brother

"Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die."
Son

"My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them."
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"The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this."
Disease

"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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"To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater."
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"U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone."
Feelings

"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."
Equality

"Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another."
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"I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too."
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"I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick."
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"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."
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"You see, I was the son of a baptist minister."
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"The son of the victim, you know, has been virtually forgotten until recently."
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"I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it."
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"I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor and I like the way he works."
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"I try to get them working. My older son is 10 and he's pretty interested. We had a dinner party the other night and he helped a lot. He helped peel asparagus; he hung out. It was great."
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"If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would die."
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"Son, never throw a punch at a redwood."
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