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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

Bob Geldof

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.
BOB GELDOF

Depression Opposites Thinking
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
BOB GELDOF

Environmental People World
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.
BOB GELDOF

Lying Political Rocks Stars
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.
BOB GELDOF

Administration Thinking
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 GELDOF

Hair Holding Wells
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.
BOB GELDOF

People Politics Simple
Playing live if the thing I love doing best
BOB GELDOF

Best Love Play Things
Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
BOB GELDOF

Day End Reading Tired
When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
BOB GELDOF

Careers Stone Years
Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
BOB GELDOF

Country Scar Soul World
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.
BOB GELDOF

Country Done Political President
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
BOB GELDOF

Goes Personal Play Understanding
But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
BOB GELDOF

Drug Made Thinking
Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it.
BOB GELDOF

People Progress Trying
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?’
BOB GELDOF

Again Country Imaginary Universe
It’s a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that’s sickening.
BOB GELDOF

Ebola Tragedy World

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