Playing live if the thing I love doing best
BOB GELDOFSo 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
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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It’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.
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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It’s a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that’s sickening.
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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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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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Music can’t change the world.
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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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