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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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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Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it.
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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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And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
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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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Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we’d have done it. That’s the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, ‘were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?’
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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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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