Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it.
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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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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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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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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Music can’t change the world.
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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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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 was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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