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.
BOB GELDOFPhysically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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Music can’t change the world.
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It’s really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you’re going to get it to these people.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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