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.
BOB GELDOFMost people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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