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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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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I 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.
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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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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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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
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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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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 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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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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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