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.
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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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 strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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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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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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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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We’re looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition… doesn’t matter if it’s death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty.
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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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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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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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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