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.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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’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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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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