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
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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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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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Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it’s empirically so.
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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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 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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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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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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