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 GELDOFI’d always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think,
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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I’d always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think,
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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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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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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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