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 GELDOFIt’s like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it’s not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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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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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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Music can’t change the world.
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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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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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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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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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