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Bob Geldof

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
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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Book Contemporary Fascinating
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’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
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Goes Personal Play Understanding
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
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
Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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Inner Peace Inspirational
Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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Coffee Instant Rocks Roll
When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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Collective Things Younger
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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Aids Poverty Spring Trying War
Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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Day End Reading Tired
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.
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Happening Million Needs People Rocks
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
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
I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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Difficult Personality Wit
Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it.
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People Progress Trying

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