Music can’t change the world.
BOB GELDOFSo 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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they’re left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids
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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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I do think I feel it but you don’t think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don’t think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It’s been a long fifty years.
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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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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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It’s like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it’s not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on
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And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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