Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
BOB GELDOFPhysically 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 still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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You’ll think I’m off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical – in a positive sense – in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.
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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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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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Music can’t change the world.
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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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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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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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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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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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