It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
BOB GELDOFI 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.
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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I’m thin. I’ve got my hair. I’m well off. I survived, you know
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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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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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Men 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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