Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it.
BOB GELDOFAgain, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we’d have done it. That’s the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, ‘were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?’
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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Everything that’s rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we’d have done it. That’s the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, ‘were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?’
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You can’t trust politicians. It doesn’t matter who makes a political speech. It’s all lies – and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
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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.
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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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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
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