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Geoff Mulgan Quotes

Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.

Geoff Mulgan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: english
Birth: 1961

Topics

Business Style Action Cynicism Big

I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available.

Jenny Holzer

Work Outdoors Doing Bread Know Eat

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

John Chrysostom

Poor Human Reason Divine Concepts

After making a movie, maybe you weren't able to shoot many of your ideas, because a movie is only 1 1/2 or two hours long, but TV gives you space to film a lot of things.

Andrew Lau

Space Ideas Long You Two Shoot

I propose not our enemies as an example for our general imitation, yet, as their navy is the best regulated of any in the world, we must, in some degree, imitate them and aim at such farther improvement as may one day make ours vie with - and exceed - theirs.

John Paul Jones

Improvement Best Day World Aim Navy

In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.

Robert Preston

Marriage I Am Someone Who Giver Am

As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have the opportunity to play. They don't define you as a human being.

Amy Bloom

Mother Opportunity Children Think

After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Women Future Hands Look Young Now

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.

Romano Prodi

Influence World Real Europe Weight

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

Ruby Wax

Truth Myself People Fat Television

I really like doing television shows, and I anticipated doing a comedy, because that's the place I feel the most comfortable - those are the risks I want to take.

Lizzy Caplan

Risks Feel Comedy Doing Television

I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.

Joyce Meyer

Gifts Give Get Like Them

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

JC Chasez

Myself Creative Me Feel Artist Like