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.
BOB GELDOFI 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.
BOB GELDOFSo 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
BOB GELDOFWhat’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
BOB GELDOFActually, 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.
BOB GELDOFWhen I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
BOB GELDOFPhysically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
BOB GELDOFI 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.
BOB GELDOFMusic can’t change the world.
BOB GELDOFPlaying live if the thing I love doing best
BOB GELDOFYou cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
BOB GELDOFMusic is still above all else the thing that does it for me
BOB GELDOFWell, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
BOB GELDOFBlair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
BOB GELDOFFind inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
BOB GELDOFWhen I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
BOB GELDOFTell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
BOB GELDOF