Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
BOB GELDOFFind inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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 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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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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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.
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Music can’t change the world.
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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it.
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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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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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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