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BOB GELDOFActually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it’s empirically so.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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Music can’t change the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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