Geoff Mulgan Quotes
Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active member of the 'Cagoule' group, committed to the violent overthrow of the Third Republic, and hosted meetings at Oreal headquarters.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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It's funny: I like being surprised as a reader, so it's difficult for me to spoil my own stuff.
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When I was growing up as a child, a magazine, to me, was like a finger beckoning me to the future.
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The hardest part of the day is all the stuff after I open my eyes in the morning.
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Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.
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Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active member of the 'Cagoule' group, committed to the violent overthrow of the Third Republic, and hosted meetings at Oreal headquarters.
