Bob Geldof Quotes

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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• People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.

  

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• Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

  

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• Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

  

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• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

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• I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.

  

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• If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

  

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• I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

  

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• It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

  

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• The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.

  

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• It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.

  

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• I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.

  

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• I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.

  

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• The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

  

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• In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.

  

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• Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.

  

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• What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

  

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• Makeup can make a woman look more beautiful at every age.

  

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• When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another.

  

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• Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

  

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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.

  

  Bob Geldof
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