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.
BOB GELDOFIt’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.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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I 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.
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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.
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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,
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Music can’t change the world.
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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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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