Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
BOB GELDOFThey thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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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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But 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.
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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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