Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
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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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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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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Music can’t change the world.
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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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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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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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So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I’m thin. I’ve got my hair. I’m well off. I survived, you know
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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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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 I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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