It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
BOB GELDOFIt strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there’s joy there’s its opposite, and it’s something you ride if you possibly can.
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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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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’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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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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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
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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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