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
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.
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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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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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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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And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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It’s like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it’s not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on
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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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You can’t trust politicians. It doesn’t matter who makes a political speech. It’s all lies – and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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