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?’
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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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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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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Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it’s empirically so.
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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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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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Music can’t change the world.
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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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