What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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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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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
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