I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
BOB GELDOFIt’s really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you’re going to get it to these people.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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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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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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Everything that’s rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
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It’s like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it’s not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on
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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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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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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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