Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
BOB GELDOFPlaying live if the thing I love doing best
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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I don’t think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that’s what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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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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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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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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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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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