Geoff Mulgan Quotes

Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.

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• When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • God
  • Belief
  • Dies

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Time
  • History
  • Leadership

• I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• 'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Kids

• Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • See
  • Everything
  • Got

• We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to say what they feel.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Voice

• We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Man
  • Soldier
  • Guilt

• I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Boy
  • Being
  • Franchise

• The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• You're allowed to work hard and have good things and do good things.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Good
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Beautiful
  • Everything
  • Able

• The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • First
  • Thing
  • Intensity

• Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

  

  Ovid
  • Character
  • Study
  • Faithful

• You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • You
  • Teach
  • Old

• I remember when I got into Juilliard - which was just crazy to me, that I would be studying at a school like that - the choice to cut all my hair off was really symbolic for me.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • School
  • Remember
  • Crazy

• I don't find touring very creative. There's not much time to yourself with your instruments.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Time
  • Yourself
  • Creative

• I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Hate
  • Find
  • Conservative

• Don't give up - our country needs you now more than ever. This is a pivotal moment in the history of our country: Our ideals are at stake, and we all have to fight for who we are. We are all, and should be treated as, equals, but the disparity in terms of income and inequality, for women and women of color, is significant.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Up
  • Women
  • Country

• If somebody doesn't want to cook at home or has more family members than they have room for, then it's great to be in a city that's got restaurants that are actually busy on the holidays.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Great
  • Family
  • Home

• 'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

  

  James Gandolfini
  • Good
  • Long
  • Writing

• It is too evident that if the drawing is bad, the color false, the deepest emotion must fail to express itself.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Bad
  • Color
  • Drawing

• So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Book

• Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.

  

  Geoff Mulgan