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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

Bob Geldof

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
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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People Progress Trying
When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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Collective Things Younger
Music can’t change the world.
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Change Changing Music World
What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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Company Point Secretary
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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Book Contemporary Fascinating
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
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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Ebola Tragedy World
Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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Everybody Individual Our Poverty Problem
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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Fun Nice Thinking
Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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Coffee Instant Rocks Roll
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
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
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
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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Above Music Still
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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Careers Stone Years

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