Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
BOB GELDOFYou cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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Everything that’s rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
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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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Music can’t change the world.
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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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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’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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