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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The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.
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If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.
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So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.
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In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
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What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.
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When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.
