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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I select good scripts, and every role is an opportunity to enhance my histrionic skills.
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The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.
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Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
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She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.
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I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.
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Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.
