Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
BOB GELDOFFind inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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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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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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