Ken Livingstone Quotes
When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.
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But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
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The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.
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I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.
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Increased sympathy for an Islamist cause, lack of integration, and the absence of acceptance of Muslims into British society makes it harder for Muslims to challenge Islamism and tough for non-Muslims to understand it.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.
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I love to clean.
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I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
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A man should eat slowly, properly, even if he eats alone.
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I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
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When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.
