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.
BOB GELDOFYou 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.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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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Music can’t change the world.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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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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