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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.

Bob Geldof

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
BOB GELDOF

Goes Personal Play Understanding
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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Country Scar Soul World
Music can’t change the world.
BOB GELDOF

Change Changing Music World
Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
BOB GELDOF

Day End Reading Tired
Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
BOB GELDOF

Like Monday Reson
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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Country Done Political President
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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Fun Nice Thinking
Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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Everybody Individual Our Poverty Problem
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

Administration Thinking
What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
BOB GELDOF

Company Point Secretary
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

Happening Million Needs People Rocks
It’s a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that’s sickening.
BOB GELDOF

Ebola Tragedy World
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

Hair Holding Wells
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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Book Contemporary Fascinating
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.
BOB GELDOF

Aids Poverty Spring Trying War
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

Careers Stone Years

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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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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