Geldof In Africa Quotes & Sayings

I like suggesting that 'we are slaves to the objects around us,' that 'plenty should be enough,' or that the 'buyer should beware,' within the context of conventional selling space. — Barbara Kruger

I like red wine because it's more sophisticated, more complex and mature. It's a bit like me, no longer young but not old yet either. — Mick Hucknall

It is the best feeling in the world to have a close game come down to just a couple of plays and you are able to do it. — Drew Bledsoe

There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program — Edward Yourdon

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. — Bob Geldof

Investigations "eliminated solipsism but not the horror." The only difference between this new predicament and that of the Tractatus was that rather than being trapped alone in our private thoughts, we were trapped together, with other people, in the institution of language. — James Ryerson

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before. — Lady Gaga

In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people. — Ann Turner

I find this less scandalous than beautiful: a kind of palimpsestic plagiarism that moves through bodies and time, a collective song with no single origin, or whose origin has been erased
the way a star, from our earthly perspective, is often survived by its own light. — Ben Lerner

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. — Bob Geldof

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless. — Polly Toynbee

Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul. — Bob Geldof

Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life. — Bob Geldof

All religions have been made by men. — Napoleon Bonaparte