Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
BOB GELDOFBut I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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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 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 Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
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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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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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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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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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