When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
BOB GELDOFFind inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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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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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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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Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
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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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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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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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I don’t think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that’s what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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