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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.

Bob Geldof

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
Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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Best Love Play Things
Music can’t change the world.
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Change Changing Music World
When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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Collective Things Younger
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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Book Contemporary Fascinating
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
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’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’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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Difficult Personality Wit
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
Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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Coffee Instant Rocks Roll
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
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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Above Music Still
Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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Inner Peace Inspirational
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

People Politics Simple
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
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
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
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
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
What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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Company Point Secretary
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
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
BOB GELDOF

Attention Dressing Humor Kids Men
But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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Drug Made Thinking
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
And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
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Fighting Men Way
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

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