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.
BOB GELDOFBut I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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Music can’t change the world.
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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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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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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
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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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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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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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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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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’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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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