Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
BOB GELDOFAnd whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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 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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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Music can’t change the world.
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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
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