Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it’s empirically so.
BOB GELDOFAnd whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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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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Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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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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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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