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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.

Bono

It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
BONO

Blessing Looks Weakness
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

Darkness Importance Mean People
Everyone’s got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It’s a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one.
BONO

Abandoned Everyone Following Sometimes
I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’
BONO

Record Relevant Stadiums
The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
BONO

Dear Stupid Wells
If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
BONO

Islands Sea Taught
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
BONO

Bequeath Children Pops
What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
BONO

Ends Folks Pops
Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
BONO

Christian Jesus Tolerate
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.
BONO

Eye Mean Ocean
There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that’s what was in our head for ‘Get On Your Boots.’ But actually, the song is much more punk rock.
BONO

Rocks Song Thinking
Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
BONO

Kings Real Thinking
I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
BONO

Divides Issues People
Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
BONO

Home People World
Rock stars are good at making noise.
BONO

Noise Rocks Stars
I’m a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I’ve been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
BONO

Darkness Song Writing

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.

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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.

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