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?’
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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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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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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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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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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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 still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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Music can’t change the world.
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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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