Bob Geldof Quotes
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Music can't change the world.
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best.
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90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?
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Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.
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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, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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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The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.
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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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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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Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.
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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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I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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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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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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Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.
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Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.
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And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?
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If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.
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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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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.