Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
BOB GELDOFIt’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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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.
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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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