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Bob Geldof

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
Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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Best Love Play Things
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
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
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
Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
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Fame Most People Rocks Simple
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

Country Done Political President
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
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
What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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Company Point Secretary
Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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Inner Peace Inspirational
They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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Facts Halls Jerry Tom
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.
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Administration Thinking
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

Birthday Thinking Years
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
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?’
BOB GELDOF

Again Country Imaginary Universe

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