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.
BOB GELDOFYou’ll think I’m off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical – in a positive sense – in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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.
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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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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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Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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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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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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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