When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
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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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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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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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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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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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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It’s a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that’s sickening.
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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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