Geoff Mulgan Quotes

Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them.

Geoff Mulgan

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• I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Doing
  • Romantic

• Basically, a bad breakup is never meant to teach you 'I'll never fall in love again.' It's meant to teach you 'Now I better know what makes for healthful, happy love - and thanks to this breakup I'm now better able to recognize it and snag it!'

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Know

• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Single

• I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Famous
  • Name-Dropper

• I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • School
  • Friends
  • Me

• I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.

  

  Feist
  • Long
  • Year
  • Curious

• In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Experience

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Hate

• I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Dog
  • Walk

• Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • Singing
  • Expression

• I actually didn't really start to get into the research of film until I was much older. I decided I wanted to direct a lot earlier than I started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Start
  • Strange
  • Research

• I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.

  

  Jack Black
  • Time
  • Home
  • Kids

• Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Always
  • Picture

• Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Security
  • Immigration
  • Legal

• China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Hope
  • Understanding
  • China

• I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Struggle
  • Look
  • Perseverance

• I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Play
  • Find

• My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

  

  Atom Egoyan
  • Believe
  • Parents

• For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Done
  • White
  • Election

• Sometimes, I think I have the best job in the world.

  

  Louis Susman
  • World
  • Job

• I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Italian
  • Violent
  • Temperament

• I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.

  

  Jamie Bamber
  • Home
  • Education

• Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them.

  

  Geoff Mulgan