Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
BOB GELDOFWe’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.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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Music can’t change the world.
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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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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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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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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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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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 cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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