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 GELDOFPlaying live if the thing I love doing best
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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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
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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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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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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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
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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’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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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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Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
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