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,
BOB GELDOFWell, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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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Music can’t change the world.
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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It’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
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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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