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Bob Geldof
October 5, 1954 -
Nationality: Irish
Category: Actor
Subcategory: Irish Actor

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

   

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

   

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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?

   

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.

   

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.

   

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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.

    Topics: Family

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.

   

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.

   

Music can't change the world.

   

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.

   

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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