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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.

Bob Geldof

Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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Coffee Instant Rocks Roll
Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we’d have done it. That’s the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, ‘were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?’
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Again Country Imaginary Universe
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
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Depression Experience People Views
Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it’s empirically so.
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Country Done Political President
I don’t think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that’s what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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Organization People Thinking Trade Words
They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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Facts Halls Jerry Tom
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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Anything People Unreasonable Well
Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
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Fame Most People Rocks Simple
Music can’t change the world.
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Change Changing Music World
Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it.
BOB GELDOF

People Progress Trying
You can’t trust politicians. It doesn’t matter who makes a political speech. It’s all lies – and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
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Lying Political Rocks Stars
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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Happening Million Needs People Rocks
Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there’s joy there’s its opposite, and it’s something you ride if you possibly can.
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Depression Opposites Thinking
Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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Day End Reading Tired
We’re looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition… doesn’t matter if it’s death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty.
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Aids Poverty Spring Trying War
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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Business Music Needs

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