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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

Bob Geldof

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
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
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Depression Experience People Views
When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
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Careers Stone Years
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
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Hair Holding Wells
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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Business Music Needs
Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
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Anything People Unreasonable Well
Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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Best Love Play Things
You can’t trust politicians. It doesn’t matter who makes a political speech. It’s all lies – and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
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Lying Political Rocks Stars
Music can’t change the world.
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Change Changing Music World
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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Organization People Thinking Trade Words
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.
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Depression Opposites Thinking
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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Environmental People World
Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they’re left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids
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Attention Dressing Humor Kids Men
Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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Coffee Instant Rocks Roll
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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Again Country Imaginary Universe
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

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