Geoff Mulgan Quotes
Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.
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Cleanses and products don't make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you're set. My makeup artist, Melanie Iglesias, couldn't figure out why my skin looks so good. I think it's because I'm happy!
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There's not a lot of good TV.
Colson Whitehead -
Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.
