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.
BOB GELDOFMusic is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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Music can’t change the world.
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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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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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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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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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