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
BOB GELDOFI 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.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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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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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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I’m thin. I’ve got my hair. I’m well off. I survived, you know
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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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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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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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Music can’t change the world.
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