When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
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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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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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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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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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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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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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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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