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BOB GELDOFWhen I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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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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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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