When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
BOB GELDOFIt strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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You’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.
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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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Music can’t change the world.
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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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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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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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Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it.
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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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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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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