“But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.” PeopleIfsHumansHappensDiesProcessViewsDepressionNormalEtcBeing HumanLearning Experience Author:Bob Geldof
“And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?” IfsChildrenPrivilegeHaving Children Author:Bob Geldof
“Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.” PeopleIfsWorldTryingHumansWellsPersonsAcceptingProgressDependsReasonableBobOlympicsPersistUnreasonableHuman ProgressTrying To Change Author:Bob Geldof
“Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.” IfsThinkingHumansJoyConditionsDepressionOppositesHuman ConditionBeing Depressed Author:Bob Geldof
“We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.” IfsTryingWarMatterProblemIndividualPovertyConditionsSpringAspectTradeCorruptionAidsHealGovernanceFamineInstabilityEnding PovertyHiv Aids Author:Bob Geldof
“If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older” IfsBoysGrowingPopsSingersGrowing OldWrecksGrowing OlderPretty Boy Author:Bob Geldof
“You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book” IfsBookContemporaryFascinating Author:Bob Geldof
