Top 71 Geldof Quotes

#1. I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.

Sting

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#2. I hope the Spice Girls will come back, although it may be beyond even Bob Geldof to get that to happen.

Gordon Brown

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#3. Bob Geldof feels the big picture all the time, even in the smallest argument when someone's saying, 'Well, no, you've got to have three staples in the program, not just two,' Bob feels people dying somewhere.

Richard Curtis

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#4. It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years,

Russell Brand

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#5. I prefer watching movies on the sofa rather than sitting next to Bob Geldof at a premiere and wanting to kill yourself.

Keeley Hawes

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#6. Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.

Steven Morrissey

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#7. 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

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#8. I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.

Peaches Geldof

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#9. 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

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#10. Our need to knock celebrities is ... Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's animalistic.

Peaches Geldof

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#11. Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.

Bob Geldof

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#12. You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.

Peaches Geldof

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#13. Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing.

Peaches Geldof

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#14. 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.

Bob Geldof

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#15. I hate being called spoilt. My life is ordinary.

Peaches Geldof

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#16. Think. That's what we need you to do. Think.

Bob Geldof

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#17. And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

Bob Geldof

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#18. Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

Bob Geldof

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#19. 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

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#20. 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.

Bob Geldof

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#21. 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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#22. 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.

Bob Geldof

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#23. What's the point in having a company of secretaries?

Bob Geldof

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#24. Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

Bob Geldof

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#25. Rock and Roll is instant coffee.

Bob Geldof

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

Bob Geldof

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#27. I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.

Peaches Geldof

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

Bob Geldof

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

Bob Geldof

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#30. 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?

Bob Geldof

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

Bob Geldof

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#32. I don't feel like I need to be a successor to my mother, or her work.

Peaches Geldof

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#33. A lot of paparazzi wanted to be real photographers but they failed, and they did that instead, and it's not right; it's stalking.

Peaches Geldof

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#34. 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

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

Bob Geldof

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#36. But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.

Bob Geldof

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#37. You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care about.

Peaches Geldof

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

Bob Geldof

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#39. Stop being a consumer, fight the power!

Peaches Geldof

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#40. The meaning of life is life itself.

Bob Geldof

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#41. Rock & roll is instant coffee.

Bob Geldof

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#42. Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.

Bob Geldof

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#43. 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.

Bob Geldof

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#44. Music can't change the world.

Bob Geldof

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#45. 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.

Bob Geldof

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#46. The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.

Bob Geldof

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#47. Playing live if the thing I love doing best.

Bob Geldof

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#48. When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.

Bob Geldof

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#49. I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.

Bob Geldof

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#50. 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.

Bob Geldof

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

Bob Geldof

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

Bob Geldof

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#53. 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.

Bob Geldof

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#54. 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

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#55. I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

Peaches Geldof

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#56. 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

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

Bob Geldof

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#58. 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

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#59. Tell me why ... I don't like Mondays ...

Bob Geldof

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#60. Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

Bob Geldof

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#61. 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

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

Bob Geldof

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#63. Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.

Bob Geldof

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#64. If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.

Bob Geldof

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#65. People should just be aware of how they are eating ... yesterday I had a McDonald's breakfast and pizza too - but that's bad.

Peaches Geldof

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#66. 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.

Bob Geldof

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#67. 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.

Bob Geldof

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#68. I hate ridiculous names; my weird name has haunted me all my life.

Peaches Geldof

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#69. 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

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#70. 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.

Bob Geldof

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#71. 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.

Bob Geldof

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