Geoff Mulgan Quotes
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
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Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
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I'm less interested in how we label ourselves. I'm more interested in how we treat each other. And if we're treating each other right, then I can be African-American, I can be multi-racial, I can be you name it, what matters is, am I showing people respect, am I caring for one, for other people.
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I suppose many people in Ireland would regard me as being more a European writer than an Irish writer. I don't think this is so.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?
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I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
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Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.
