Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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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When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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.
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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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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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