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.
BOB GELDOFOur problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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.
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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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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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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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 I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there’s joy there’s its opposite, and it’s something you ride if you possibly can.
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