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’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.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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Music can’t change the world.
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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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
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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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