Ken Livingstone Quotes
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
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Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
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Pride is the emotional reward of achievement. It is not a vice to be overcome but a virtue to be attained.
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The lesson is clear: estimates of causes of death are warped by media coverage. ... The world in our heads is not a precise replica of reality; our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted by the prevalence and emotional intensity of the messages to which we are exposed.
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I wish I could come home to a life that looks like a TV show. I wish I could see my television family waiting for me, where no one fights and no one screams, no one lies and no one leaves.
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I remember being in high school and this guy saying to me, 'You'd actually be good-looking if you didn't joke around so much.' That affected me, and so I stopped joking around, and I stopped being a goof because I thought people would like me better.
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I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.
