It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
BOB GELDOFCertainly, 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.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
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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’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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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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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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