Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
BOB GELDOFYou’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.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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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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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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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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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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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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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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