Sadiq Khan Quotes

Leaving the EU isn't the answer to Britain's problems.

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• Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Society
  • Black

• I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Opportunity
  • Cool
  • Camera

• Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • Community
  • Process
  • News

• It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Important
  • Career
  • Interesting

• I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Art

• Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.

  

  Wale
  • Great
  • Art
  • Rapper

• The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.

  

  Babyface
  • Love
  • Song
  • Falling In Love

• The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • May
  • Experience
  • Problems

• I'm a runner first before anything else.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • First
  • Anything
  • Before

• My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Home
  • House
  • Design

• The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy.

  

  Oliver North
  • Real
  • American
  • Government

• I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Dress
  • Nerd
  • Huge

• I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Good
  • Man
  • Control

• People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Know
  • Comedy

• I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing but decline for decades.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Power
  • Hate
  • Trump

• The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.

  

  Lactantius
  • Mind
  • Together
  • Spirit

• Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Know
  • Growth
  • Catholic

• Instead, we try to apply Aesop's 2,600-year-old equation to opportunities in which we have reasonable confidence as to how many birds are in the bush and when they will emerge (a formulation that my grandsons would probably update to 'A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.').

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Girl
  • Confidence

• Sometimes I'd literally show up at the gym having a panic attack, and my trainer would be like, 'All right, let's just go get breakfast.' I can't give enough credit to him... he was really there for me, and not just like a trainer where it's like, 'Well, come on, man, I gotta pump you up.' He cared more about my mind and the state that I was in.

  

  Dylan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Gym

• [T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Government
  • Fighting

• IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis the Sixteenth, the drums drowning his speech on the scaffold. Herman Melville at breakfast, feeling a sardine to his cat. Poe's wedding. Lewis Carroll's picnics. The Russians leaving Alaska, delighted with the deal. Shot of a seal applauding.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Feelings
  • Leaving
  • Cat

• It's almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists.

  

  Kurt Busch
  • Time
  • Driving

• Leaving the EU isn't the answer to Britain's problems.

  

  Sadiq Khan
  • Leaving