Geoff Mulgan Quotes

Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.

Geoff Mulgan

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One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.

Jeremy Sumpter

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Nobody's ever kept their sitcom character going after the show's off the air.

Megan Mullally

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I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.

Shirley Bassey

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My mom actually would not allow me to watch 'Dawson's Creek!'

Torrey DeVitto

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Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Moliere

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I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.

Joseph Epstein

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Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.

Jordan Peele

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I saw Bobby Green and Lando Vannata, and everybody in the back was like, 'Oh, man, that's a sick fight!' And I'm like, 'Dude, look at his face, that cannot be good for his brain.' I'm just honest.

Demetrious Johnson

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The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.

Arthur Henderson

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An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.

William Labov

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I don't understand 'The Only Way Is Essex' and 'Made in Chelsea': the way they pretend there's no camera. I cannot fathom the attraction.

Shaun Evans

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As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

Serj Tankian

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