But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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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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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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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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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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.
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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