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Music can’t change the world.

Bob Geldof

Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
BOB GELDOF

Anything People Unreasonable Well
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
BOB GELDOF

Goes Personal Play Understanding
Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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Best Love Play Things
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
BOB GELDOF

Environmental People World
When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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Collective Things Younger
Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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Like Monday Reson
Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
BOB GELDOF

Inner Peace Inspirational
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.
BOB GELDOF

Fighting Men Way
Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
BOB GELDOF

Country Scar Soul World
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
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.
BOB GELDOF

Depression Opposites Thinking
Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
BOB GELDOF

Fame Most People Rocks Simple
What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
BOB GELDOF

Company Point Secretary
Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
BOB GELDOF

Business Music Needs
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.
BOB GELDOF

Country Done Political President
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

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