They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
BOB GELDOFIt strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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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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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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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