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.
BOB GELDOFEverything 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.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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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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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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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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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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