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.
BONOFacts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
More Bono Quotes
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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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As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.
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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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Even though I’m a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.
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When those people get up at the Grammys and say, “I thank God”, I always imagine God going, “Oh, don’t, please don’t thank me for that one. Please, oh, that’s an awful one! Don’t thank me for that – that’s a piece of crap !”
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Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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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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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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