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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

Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
BOB GELDOF

Country Scar Soul World
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
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
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
BOB GELDOF

Above Music Still
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
BOB GELDOF

Hair Holding Wells
When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
BOB GELDOF

Angel Moving Voice
What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
BOB GELDOF

Company Point Secretary
Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
BOB GELDOF

Anything People Unreasonable Well
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
It’s a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that’s sickening.
BOB GELDOF

Ebola Tragedy World
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
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.
BOB GELDOF

Depression Experience People Views
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
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
Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
BOB GELDOF

Inner Peace Inspirational

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