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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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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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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There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'
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I was always brought up to believe in Him [God], and to behave in certain ways. That is what my parents taught me and I always trust my parents. They have great values.
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One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
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Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and good jobs for themselves. These are the just and reasonable demands of a righteous public.
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I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you're picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there's enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of it.
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I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
