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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

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
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
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.
BOB GELDOF

Happening Million Needs People Rocks
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
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
When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
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Careers Stone Years
Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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Inner Peace Inspirational
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
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
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.
BOB GELDOF

Fighting Men Way
Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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Best Love Play Things
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
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
I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
BOB GELDOF

Difficult Personality Wit
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
They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
BOB GELDOF

Facts Halls Jerry Tom

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