Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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Music can’t change the world.
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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we’d have done it. That’s the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, ‘were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?’
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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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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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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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