It’s a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that’s sickening.
BOB GELDOFMusic is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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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Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
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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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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 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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