It’s a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that’s sickening.
BOB GELDOFWhen 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 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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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 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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Music can’t change the world.
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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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