When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
BOB GELDOFWell, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
-
-
Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
BOB GELDOF -
Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
BOB GELDOF -
Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they’re left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids
BOB GELDOF -
Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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.
BOB GELDOF -
But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
BOB GELDOF -
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
BOB GELDOF -
When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
BOB GELDOF -
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?’
BOB GELDOF -
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.
BOB GELDOF -
What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
BOB GELDOF -
Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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.
BOB GELDOF -
Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
BOB GELDOF -
Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
BOB GELDOF