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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry

Bob Geldof

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
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
Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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Inner Peace Inspirational
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
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
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
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
But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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Drug Made Thinking
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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Above Music Still
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
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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Goes Personal Play Understanding
When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
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Angel Moving Voice
Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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Coffee Instant Rocks Roll
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
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
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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Birthday Thinking Years
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
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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People Politics Simple
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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Environmental People World
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
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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Country Scar Soul World
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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Hair Holding Wells
Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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Best Love Play Things
I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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Difficult Personality Wit
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
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
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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Fighting Men Way

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