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

Bob Geldof

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
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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Book Contemporary Fascinating
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
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
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
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
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
Music can’t change the world.
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Change Changing Music World
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
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
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
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
When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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Collective Things Younger
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
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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