Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
BOB GELDOFBut 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.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
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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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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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Music can’t change the world.
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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 is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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