"Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.“

-Bono

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"I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s'mores difficult. The story would start with something like... 'and the old man who lived in these woods...' I would then run back into the camper terrified."

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