Bob Geldof Quotes
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
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We can't let government make long-term commitments that it may not be able to keep.
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My wife knows that I thrive on independence, and whatever girls live with me must know that, too. They must realize I have a certain respect for my wife and love for my children, and my work comes pretty much ahead of all that.
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You can know that the final show is coming up, and prepare yourself for it mentally, but when it finally occurs, it's like a dream. You stand there feeling the love the audience has for you, and you think, 'Is this really going to end?
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.
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I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
