Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
BOB GELDOFWell, 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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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