Geoff Mulgan Quotes
I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to.
Quotes to Explore
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be before you have to carry your kids away and abandon your home and your life as you know it.
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And the reason for that I think is that in Australia our films don't get the exposure, so the process is foremost. But anyway, I love being part of the team and hate being stuck in a corner somewhere.
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I love flying so much. I even like airplane food. No one bothers you and your phone never goes off and you can't have emails go through. It's undisturbed.
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Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone.
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Now, grosses are listed in the newspapers and on television like it's a sporting event. It's ridiculous, because when you're watching a movie, unless you're an investor in the movie or a stockholder in the studio, what do you care how much it's grossing or how much it cost or any of that stuff?
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I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to.
