Ken Livingstone Quotes
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
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I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.
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Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
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If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
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You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
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Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
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Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
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I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.
Nastassja Kinski
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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
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I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!
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It's not my job to judge or assess. I think single, black, white, married - people are doing the best they can.
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
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And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair.
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I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.
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The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the real problems we pay no heed to [population decline]...In reality, much of the planet will be uninhabited long before it's uninhabitable
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The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you.
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I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.
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A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity.
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I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.
