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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry

Bob Geldof

When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
BOB GELDOF

Collective Things Younger
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.
BOB GELDOF

Birthday Thinking Years
Music can’t change the world.
BOB GELDOF

Change Changing Music World
Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
BOB GELDOF

Business Music Needs
Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
BOB GELDOF

Everybody Individual Our Poverty Problem
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.
BOB GELDOF

Fighting Men Way
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.
BOB GELDOF

Lying Political Rocks Stars
Playing live if the thing I love doing best
BOB GELDOF

Best Love Play Things
Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
BOB GELDOF

Anything People Unreasonable Well
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,
BOB GELDOF

Fun Nice Thinking
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
BOB GELDOF

Above Music Still
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 GELDOF

Administration Thinking
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?’
BOB GELDOF

Again Country Imaginary Universe
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
BOB GELDOF

Book Contemporary Fascinating
I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
BOB GELDOF

Difficult Personality Wit
Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
BOB GELDOF

Country Scar Soul World

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