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

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
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
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
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
Music can’t change the world.
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Change Changing Music World
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
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
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
When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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Collective Things Younger
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?’
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Again Country Imaginary Universe
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
I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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Difficult Personality Wit
When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
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Angel Moving Voice
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
Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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Coffee Instant Rocks Roll
Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
BOB GELDOF

Everybody Individual Our Poverty Problem

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

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