It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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But 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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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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Music can’t change the world.
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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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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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So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I’m thin. I’ve got my hair. I’m well off. I survived, you know
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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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