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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.

Bob Geldof

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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Fame Most People Rocks Simple
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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Careers Stone Years
Music can’t change the world.
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Change Changing Music World
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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People Politics Simple
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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Book Contemporary Fascinating
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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Depression Opposites Thinking
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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Administration Thinking
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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People Progress Trying
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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Fun Nice Thinking
They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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Facts Halls Jerry Tom
Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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Coffee Instant Rocks Roll
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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Organization People Thinking Trade Words
Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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Day End Reading Tired
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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Environmental People World
Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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Inner Peace Inspirational
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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Hair Holding Wells

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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