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 GELDOFEverything 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.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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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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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I’m thin. I’ve got my hair. I’m well off. I survived, you know
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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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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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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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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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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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