When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
BOB GELDOFWell, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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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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You’ll think I’m off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical – in a positive sense – in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.
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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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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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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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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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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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Music can’t change the world.
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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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