I’d always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think,
BOB GELDOFI don’t think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that’s what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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It’s really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you’re going to get it to these people.
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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I’m thin. I’ve got my hair. I’m well off. I survived, you know
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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
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I do think I feel it but you don’t think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don’t think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It’s been a long fifty years.
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Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
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Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
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And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
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Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it’s empirically so.
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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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It’s a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that’s sickening.
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Music can’t change the world.
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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