I’d always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think,
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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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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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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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’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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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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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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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 was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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