Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
BOB GELDOFOur problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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