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 GELDOFAgain, 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?’
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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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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It’s a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that’s sickening.
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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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 Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
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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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