Geoff Mulgan Quotes

In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.

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• Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Child
  • Blessed

• When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Hope

• I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Song
  • Player
  • Guitar

• When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Interesting
  • Reading
  • Language

• I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Night
  • Quiet
  • Busy

• Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Me
  • More
  • Anything

• My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

  

  Parker Posey
  • She
  • Movie
  • Star

• When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Women
  • History

• Faith Hill is a big role model.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Faith
  • Model
  • Role Model

• I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Like

• There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mean
  • Always
  • Peoples

• Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • American
  • History
  • Vice

• And, of course, I'm constantly energized by designing courses around the world.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • World
  • Around
  • Courses

• About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Life
  • Think
  • Know

• Gaily bedight,A gallant knight,In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long,Singing a song,In search of Eldorado.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Long
  • Song
  • Singing

• The days are over when technology can be advanced in laboratories by individual scientists alone. Now you need an army of lawyers to negotiate the hazardous terrain of interlocking patents. Unless we find a solution to the problem of interlocking patents, the patent system may actually impede the very innovation it was designed to encourage.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • May
  • Alone
  • Technology

• If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nature
  • Bird

• do Not create anything, it will bemisinterpreted. it will not change.it will follow you the rest of your life.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Life
  • Rest

• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Experience
  • Spiritual
  • Gratitude

• The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.

  

  Elijah Cummings
  • School
  • High

• His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Circle

• I think people recognize me if I am going out to dinner or if I am staying in a hotel. They are not quite sure at first because I have grown up a lot.

  

  Emma Bunton Spice Girls
  • People
  • Up

• More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Book
  • Knowledge
  • Libraries

• In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.

  

  Geoff Mulgan