Geoff Mulgan Quotes
The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.Geoff Mulgan
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
Maggie Rowe -
What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
Dan Maffei -
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
Quincy Jones -
I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
Rainbow Rowell -
War is the greatest failure of mankind.
Aaron Huey -
I am not in politics to make more money.
Nandan Nilekani
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
Laura Kightlinger -
I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
Maggie Q -
I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
Tavi Gevinson -
Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that's where the Light wants us to be. It's the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don't try to control the situation, then we won't end up in the place we shouldn't be.
Yehuda Berg -
If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
Sam Altman -
You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
Gary Hamel
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
Floyd Skloot -
I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
Jackie Chan -
I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
Larry Kramer -
I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
Ted Cruz -
When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
Fefe Dobson -
If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
Patricia Velasquez
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Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.
Vanilla Ice -
The power to investigate is a great public trust.
Emanuel Celler -
I'm a professional athlete. I've been paid since I was in my early 20s to go out there and fight with guys who were 40 or 50 pounds heavier than I am and fight for my life. I got into a business where people make decisions based on some of the most stupid things.
Bill Goldberg -
I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.
Jennifer Westfeldt -
The public talk colloquially, the public's grammar's not perfect. They kid around and I don't think they overly mark me down for that. They just see me as a normal guy.
John Key -
The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.
Geoff Mulgan