Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
BOB GELDOFMusic is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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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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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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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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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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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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Music can’t change the world.
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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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