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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 Geldof
You Joy Ride Think Possibly Something Absolutely Part Opposite Condition Human Being Human Condition Being Depressed Depressed Certainly
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. Bob Geldof
People World Everything Thousands Over Around Rock Rock-N-Roll Shock Get Roll Happening Meant Meant To Be Now Ever Actually Thing Watching Millions Millions Of People Need
When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks. Bob Geldof
Year Later Kinks Year Later Hit Did Stones Dylan The Who Who Careers
The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too. Bob Geldof
Love Me Joy Passion Girl Too Complete Mad Argue Like
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. Bob Geldof
You Thought Hair Know Well Got Off Survived Just Hold Thin
Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do. Bob Geldof
Politics Music Business Must Need
I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years. Bob Geldof
Life Time You Age Cause Long Think Feel Been Years Anything Fifty Certain Lived
But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac. Bob Geldof
Made Think Several Taking Friends Prozac Just Lethal
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. Bob Geldof
People World Organization Think Sets Out Through Trade Trade Organization Malign Bank Anyone Poor Poor People Organizations Certainly International World Bank Fund Monetary World Trade World Trade Organization
The universe is wonderful, but only when there is somebody there to wonder at it. Bob Shaw
Wonderful Somebody Universe Only Wonder
Well, I have gotten by twenty-seven years, so that is something. I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people. Bobby Sands
People Will Our Liberation Our People Something Onward Never Well Gotten Years Die May Republic
Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is. Bono
You Money Out Something Doing Selling Want Really
Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities. Bono
Leadership Freedom Man Thought Heroism Incredible Had He Badly Self-Control Qualities Hand Upper Upper Hand Mandela Who Suffered
Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words. Bono
Music Time People Words Think Eloquent Say More Know Lot Than Fills
The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated. Bono
Saying Health You Sometimes Example Believe Press Kind Could Entrepreneurs Argue Roads Idea For Example Course Because Priority Issue African Children Want Public Public Health Should Ridiculous Right Millions
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition. Bono
You Ambition Off End In The End
I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure. Bono
People Speak Language Live Think Would Would-Be Some Various Term Contemporary Learned Sure Lot Fervent Very Different Interface Languages Tongues Christians
Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass. Bono
World Dangerous Convictions Kind Mass Without End Just Just Kind In The End Them Awful Gray
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio. Bono
Sweet Teeth Feel Like Listen Radio Rotting
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously. Bono
Marriage People Madness Seriously Think Would More Take Knew Perhaps Grand
I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic. Bono
Love Good People Old Thought Band Laugh Telling Would He Kurt Kurt Cobain Ironic Being To Love Pop Pop Band Used
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Bono
Simple Christ Made Understanding Has-Been Been Person Scriptures
It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?' Bono
Future You Honesty Will Every Think Easier Relevant Tricks Stay Record Know Got How Still Than Stadiums While Might Much Successful Popular Fill Keep
I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation. Bono
World Situation Respond Nelson Nelson Mandela Demanded Since Involved Because Concerts Got Been Debt Cancellation Mandela African Working Desmond
I'm actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular. Bono
People Convictions Unpopular More More And More More People Like Who Actually Starting
You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.' Bono
Death You Grace Behavior Nice Merge Sort Politeness Gotta Banality Very Just Where Careful
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