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.
BOB GELDOFOur problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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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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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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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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