Bob Geldof Quotes - Page 2

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• Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

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  Divorce, Nuclear, Gone

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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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  Heart, Divorce, Odd

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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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  Business, Needs, Music Is

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• It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.

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  Sanctification

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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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  Children, Privilege, Having Children

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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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  Play, Understanding, Goes On

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• I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined

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  Lucky, Puberty, Intertwined

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• Music can't change the world.

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  Change, World, Changing The World

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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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  Thinking, Organization, People

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• They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry

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  Facts, Tom And Jerry, Halls

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• What's the point in having a company of secretaries?

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  Company, Secretary

  "Simplicity is the key to creativity" by Chris Baréz-Brown, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2015.

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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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  Hair, Holding On, Wells

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• If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older

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  Boys, Growing, Wrecks

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• Because we can't comprehend it, and that's what allows us to do it again. And it is the normal, it's the average person that can do this. Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we'd have done it. That's the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, 'were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?'

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  Lying, Heart, Average

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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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  Political, President, Done

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• Rock and Roll is instant coffee.

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  Coffee, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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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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  Rocks, People, Needs

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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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  Thinking, Drug, Made

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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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  Depression, Views, People

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• It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international response so far has been scandalous. China has delivered f**k all.

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  Ebola, Tragedy, World

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• You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book

  Bob Geldof

  Book, Contemporary, Fascinating

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• You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.

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  Thinking, Administration, Trolleys

  "Geldof back in Ethiopia" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2003.

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• I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

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  Birthday, Thinking, Years

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• Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

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  Children, Kids, Band

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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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  Kids, Men, Dressing Up

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