Ken Livingstone Quotes

I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.

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• I worked on 'Game Of Thrones' for six years, so I'm very well equipped to handle hype surrounding television shows.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Game
  • Television
  • Hype

• I want to be my own person.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Want
  • Own
  • My Own

• The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Lost
  • Value
  • Chance

• The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Work
  • Model
  • Anymore

• You go to Paris, or you go to Portugal, you go to Poland, and you ask, 'Who are you people?' They'll tell you, we're Portuguese, we're Spanish, we're Polish. Who are the people that are really European? The people in Brussels, in the E.U. bureaucracy. Europe has not been able to move to the level of patriotic identification with the concept.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • You
  • Paris

• We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • Free
  • Stand
  • Legal

• Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Serious
  • Just
  • Just Because

• Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Favorite
  • England
  • Before

• I think that a lot of terrorists have been middle class and, more surprisingly, many of them have been people who were not directly affected by the things they're angry about.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Think
  • Angry

• Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Poetry
  • Communicate
  • Genuine

• Switching the public's perception and view of me was, and still is, kind of a challenge to get them to see me outside of a character that I played on TV for so long.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Long
  • Character
  • Me

• My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.

  

  T.I.
  • Father
  • Pretty
  • Loved

• In the early 1990s Muslims were engaged in more intergroup violence than were non-Muslims, and two-thirds to three-quarters of intercivilizational wars were between Muslims and non-Muslims. Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Violence

• I think you didn't get a reply because you used the terms 'correct' and 'proper', neither of which has much meaning in Perl culture.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Culture

• I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece.

  

  Edwin Meese
  • College

• I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • Remember

• Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Military
  • Clever

• When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Compassion

• There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Band
  • Poetry
  • Record

• Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Enemy

• Sure my love is all crost Like a bud in the frostAnd there's no use at all in my going to bed,For 't is dhrames and not slape that comes into my head!

  

  Samuel Lover

• If my 12-year-old self knew that there was going to be a Broadway adaptation of 'Newsies,' I would have freaked out.

  

  Andrew Keenan-Bolger

• I walked over, my eyes scanning Luna Blu, my house, and Dave's. But it was the building behind them, that empty hotel, that had the tiniest light, provided by one word, written in fluorescent paint. Maybe it wasn't what was once there, in real life. But in this one, it said it all: STAY.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Life
  • House
  • Eye

• I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.

  

  Ken Livingstone