Ken Livingstone Quotes

The next election will bring an influx of over 120 new MPs who will be overwhelmingly on the Left.

Ken Livingstone

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• I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Feeling
  • Like
  • Friendship

• I take it seriously that it's a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It's not something I take lightly.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Black
  • Model
  • Honor

• I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Think
  • Career
  • Start

• Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Labor

• During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Good
  • Important
  • School

• Am I good enough to be No. 1? Sure, but who's gonna break Tiger's legs? I want to be the best. Can I? Oh, believe me, I will be trying. Hard. You grow up in Colombia, and everything is limited. Then, I come here, and you have everything. A trainer, nutritionist, coach. I'm very lucky. Many doors open, and I have a path to take.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mother
  • Mom
  • Sleep

• For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Work
  • Country
  • Way

• When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Beautiful
  • Problem
  • Beauty

• Writing for children isn't easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn't interest, enchant, delight, thrill, or terrify them. But when you can find a way into a young reader's imagination through something as simple as words on paper, well, there's nothing more satisfying.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Kids

• The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Same
  • Mistakes
  • Limits

• If I saw my friend's boyfriend flirting with someone else, I would definitely talk to him about what I saw. I would want to give him a chance to explain. However, depending on how major the flirting was, I would probably mention it to my friend - just to let her know what's going on.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Want
  • Know
  • Friend

• Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Great
  • Country
  • American

• People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Need
  • Resolution

• It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Work
  • Important
  • Goals

• Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Country
  • America

• Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Truth
  • Alone
  • Fire

• I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Maybe
  • Eight
  • Cuba

• With insanity, as with vomit, it is the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

  

  Joe Orton
  • Insanity

• The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Form
  • Various
  • Capital

• Self-creation is the highest art.

  

  David Zindell
  • Creation
  • Highest

• With the country moving toward inclusion, the leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have instead sent a message to young people that only some of them are valued. They've chosen to teach division and intolerance.

  

  Chad Griffin
  • Country
  • Leader
  • Teach

• The next election will bring an influx of over 120 new MPs who will be overwhelmingly on the Left.

  

  Ken Livingstone