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Bob Geldof [1954-0] Irish

Rank: 103
Actor, Singer-songwriter

Robert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof, KBE, is an Irish singer, songwriter, author, occasional actor, and political activist. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s, alongside the punk rock movement.

Politics, Experience, Learning, Music, Trust

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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.		101
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.	Music, Politics	102
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.	Experience, Learning	103
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.	Trust	104
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.		105
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.	Politics	106
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.		107
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?		108
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.		109
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.		110
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.		111
There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.		112
The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.		113
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.		114
Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.		115
Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.		116
Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.		117
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.		118
If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.		119
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.		120
Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.		121
Music can't change the world.		122
Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.		123
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.		124
Playing live if the thing I love doing best.		125
But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.		126
And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?		201
I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.		202
When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.		203
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.		204
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.		205
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.		206
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.		207

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