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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.

Bob Geldof

When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
BOB GELDOF

Collective Things Younger
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
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
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
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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People Politics Simple
Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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Like Monday Reson
It’s a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that’s sickening.
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Ebola Tragedy World
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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Book Contemporary Fascinating
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
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
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
What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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Company Point Secretary
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
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
I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
BOB GELDOF

Difficult Personality Wit
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

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