Playing live if the thing I love doing best
BOB GELDOFWhen 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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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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It’s really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you’re going to get it to these people.
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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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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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Music can’t change the world.
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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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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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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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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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