When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
BOB GELDOFWhen Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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