Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
BOB GELDOFAgain, 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?’
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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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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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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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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Music can’t change the world.
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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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