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.
BOB GELDOFI 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.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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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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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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