Geoff Mulgan Quotes

Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and across continental Europe the figures are more like several thousand.

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• I've always enjoyed poor health.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Health
  • Always
  • Poor

• Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Action
  • Emotional
  • Turn

• Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Pretty
  • Way
  • Look

• I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Down

• My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.

  

  Jack Black
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Political
  • Justice
  • Israel

• The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Night
  • Nice
  • Day

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Evidence
  • Weakness

• Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Way
  • Myself
  • Theater

• The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Game
  • Hand
  • Air

• After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Events
  • Europe

• Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Never
  • Doing

• Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • You
  • Player
  • Tennis

• I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Content
  • Consumers
  • Commerce

• Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Emotion
  • Everyone
  • Temper

• A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Better
  • Trouble
  • Deepest

• He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • May
  • Powerful
  • Others

• The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.

  

  George Oppen
  • People

• Everything comes to him who waits -- if he waits till it comes.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Waits

• One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.

  

  William Golding
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Community

• Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Word
  • Teachers
  • Feedback

• Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and across continental Europe the figures are more like several thousand.

  

  Geoff Mulgan