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.
BONOFor all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
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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.
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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.
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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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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.
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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship.
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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The great gifts of models are not that they’re more beautiful than the next person, it’s that they’re able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
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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.
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What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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