When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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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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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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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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