It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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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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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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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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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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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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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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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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