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 GELDOFWhen I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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Music can’t change the world.
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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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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