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
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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Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it.
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Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it’s empirically so.
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But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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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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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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