Geoff Mulgan Quotes
Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
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I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the 80's, I don't think the audience mind set is in that direction any longer.
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I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.
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The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.
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When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.
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The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.
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I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.
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Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.
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Years of love have been forgotIn the hatred of a minute.
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Consciousness, when it's unburdened by the body, is something that's ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and that's the meta-nature of our consciousness; we know that we know that we know, and that's such a delicious feeling, but when it's unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical.
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Whenever I go and see the Führer, I've got a loaded pistol in my pocket.
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It's been in my musical DNA since I was a little kid. I think musical theatre has really influenced everything I've done.
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.
