Playing live if the thing I love doing best
BOB GELDOFBlair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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You’ll think I’m off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical – in a positive sense – in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.
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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I’m thin. I’ve got my hair. I’m well off. I survived, you know
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Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
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Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
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I’d always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think,
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Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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Everything that’s rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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It’s a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that’s sickening.
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Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it.
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