Sadiq Khan Quotes
London is a great city full of amazing people from all backgrounds and when Londoners face adversity, we always pull together. We stand up for our values. And we show the world. We are the greatest city in the world.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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Broadway is really my life.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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When you go out on auditions for big movies, and you're not a big star, you get used to getting close but not getting the part.
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Most of my life, I feel I have been Unicycling at the Edge of the Abyss! If fact, this will be the name of my book if I ever write one, or a one man stand up routine. I have used it as the name of a collection of my musical compositions written during the '90s. It fits the scary journey I feel I've been on.
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There are some people that we know all our lives and yet never really feel we know them at all. But there are other people—” Unable to resist the temptation, he ran a feather-light caress down the curve of her cheek with one leather-sheathed knuckle. The cobalt depths of her eyes flickered with response, but she said nothing, heeding his every word. “—people we meet in a day, and instantly, it feels as though we’ve known them all our lives.
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I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.
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London is a great city full of amazing people from all backgrounds and when Londoners face adversity, we always pull together. We stand up for our values. And we show the world. We are the greatest city in the world.
