Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it.
BOB GELDOFMen 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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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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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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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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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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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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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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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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