Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
BOB GELDOFIt’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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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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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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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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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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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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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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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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Music can’t change the world.
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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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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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