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
BOB GELDOFIt’s a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that’s sickening.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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 strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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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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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
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And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
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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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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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