When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
BOB GELDOFI 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.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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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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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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 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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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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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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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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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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