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
BOB GELDOFMost people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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?’
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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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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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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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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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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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