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.
BOB GELDOFIt’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.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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We’re looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition… doesn’t matter if it’s death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty.
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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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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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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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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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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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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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Everything that’s rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
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