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BOB GELDOFHuman 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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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it’s empirically so.
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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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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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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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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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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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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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