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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.

Bob Geldof

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.
BOB GELDOF

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

Difficult Personality Wit
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
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
Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
BOB GELDOF

Day End Reading Tired
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
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 strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
BOB GELDOF

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

Collective Things Younger
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.
BOB GELDOF

Lying Political Rocks Stars
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
Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
BOB GELDOF

Fame Most People Rocks Simple
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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Book Contemporary Fascinating
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
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

Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.

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