It’s a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that’s sickening.
BOB GELDOFWhen Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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It’s like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it’s not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on
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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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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 cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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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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