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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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.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.
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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.
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You're allowed to work hard and have good things and do good things.
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Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.
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The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
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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.
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I don't find touring very creative. There's not much time to yourself with your instruments.
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I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
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Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake.
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I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.
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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
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Most of America's leading entrepreneurs are bound to the masts of their fortunes. They are allowed to keep their wealth only as long as they invest it in others. In a real sense, they can keep only what they give away. It has been given to others in the form of investments. It is embodied in a vast web of enterprises that retains its worth only through constant work and sacrifice. Capitalism is a system that begins not with taking but with giving to others.
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Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.
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No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.
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Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.
