Music can’t change the world.
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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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.
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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we’d have done it. That’s the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, ‘were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?’
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