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 GELDOFYou cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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.
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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.
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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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