Actually, 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.
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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I 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.
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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You can’t trust politicians. It doesn’t matter who makes a political speech. It’s all lies – and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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 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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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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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