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.
BOB GELDOFWhen I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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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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It’s a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that’s sickening.
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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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