Bob Geldof Quotes
The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
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From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.
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I'm different, and I'm not afraid to be different.
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I could do all of my activities at Howard because it was an environment that had essentially rid the ideology of false choices that I feel absolutely constricts young black students.
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If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.
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A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow.
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In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.
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The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.
