Music can’t change the world.
BOB GELDOFI’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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’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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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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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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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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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So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I’m thin. I’ve got my hair. I’m well off. I survived, you know
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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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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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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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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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