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.
BOB GELDOFMusic can’t change the world.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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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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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,
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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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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 is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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