Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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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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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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,
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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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 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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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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Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we’d have done it. That’s the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, ‘were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?’
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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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