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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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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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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Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.
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It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism-Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete-opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.
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Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
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I represent the mixed race community, which I think gets left out a lot. I always describe myself as being mixed race.
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Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.
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I've had a guide dog since 1969. Not the same one, of course: I've had five.
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Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.
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When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.
