Bob Geldof Quotes
Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.
Quotes to Explore
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Wearing a Hawaiian shirt, you don't ever come across as offensive. Nobody sees you as a threat. You see someone in a Hawaiian shirt, and you are like 'this guy is ready to party.'
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People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
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The words of the Constitution … are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
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I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.
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'What was being on the moon literally like?' [. . .] 'Being on the moon?' His tired gaze inspected the narrow street of cheap jewellery stores, with its office messengers and lottery touts, the off-duty taxi-drivers leaning against their cars. 'It was just like being here.'
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Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.
