Bob Geldof Quotes

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• It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

  Bob Geldof

  People, Environmental, World

  "U2, Coldplay among bands to play in Live 8". www.today.com. May 31, 2005.

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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.

  Bob Geldof

  Moving, Angel, Voice

  "Brit Awards". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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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. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.

  Bob Geldof

  Spring, War, Trying

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• Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn't there.

  Bob Geldof

  Inspirational, Inner Peace

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• Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

  Bob Geldof

  Desperate, Mankind

  Bob Geldof, Paul Vallely (1988). “Is That It?”, Ballantine Books

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• Bono as we all know, is in love with the world, he's enamoured by it. I'm enraged by it. He wants to give the world a great big hug, I want to punch its lights out.

  Bob Geldof

  Light, Giving, Hug

  "Get Up, Stand Up". www.imdb.com. (2003-).

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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.

  Bob Geldof

  Thinking, Organization, People

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• Feed the world. Let them know it's Christmas time again.

  Bob Geldof

  Christmas, Christmas Time, World

  "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (song) (1984).

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• Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me

  Bob Geldof

  Doe, Music Is, Stills

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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.

  Bob Geldof

  Stars, Lying, Rocks

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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.

  Bob Geldof

  Simple, People, Politics

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• Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight

  Bob Geldof

  Reading, Tired, The End Of The Day

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• Think. That's what we need you to do. Think.

  Bob Geldof

  Thinking, Needs, Need You

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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

  Bob Geldof

  Business, Needs, Music Is

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• It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.

  Bob Geldof

  Mean, Talking, Giving

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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. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.

  Bob Geldof

  People, Progress, Trying

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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.

  Bob Geldof

  Soul, World, Scar

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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.

  Bob Geldof

  Simple, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  1977 In Melody Maker, 27 Aug.

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• Tell me why...... I don't like Mondays.

  Bob Geldof

  Monday

  Song: I Don't Like Mondays

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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.

  Bob Geldof

  Depression, Thinking, Opposites

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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.

  Bob Geldof

  Fighting, Men, Way

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• There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks

  Bob Geldof

  Children, Men, Support

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• Rock & roll is instant coffee.

  Bob Geldof

  Coffee, Rocks, Instant Coffee

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• Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

  Bob Geldof

  Black

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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.

  Bob Geldof

  Years, Careers, Stones

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