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
BOB GELDOFBut 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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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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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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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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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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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Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
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