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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.

Bob Geldof

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.
BOB GELDOF

Lying Political Rocks Stars
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
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
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
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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Above Music Still
Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
BOB GELDOF

Coffee Instant Rocks Roll
Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it.
BOB GELDOF

People Progress Trying
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.
BOB GELDOF

Aids Poverty Spring Trying War
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
Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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Like Monday Reson
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
Playing live if the thing I love doing best
BOB GELDOF

Best Love Play Things
When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
BOB GELDOF

Collective Things Younger
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.
BOB GELDOF

People Politics Simple
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 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

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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