Ken Livingstone Quotes

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

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• When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Christian
  • Spirit
  • Reaction

• In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • You
  • Stress
  • Adapt

• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Society
  • Comedy

• I don't like allegories.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Like

• I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Work
  • Day
  • Professional

• I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

  

  Halsey
  • Single
  • Doing
  • Gold

• When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Great
  • City

• And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Say
  • Africa
  • African

• Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • Education

• Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Blood
  • Injuries
  • Diabetes

• Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Think
  • Well
  • Did

• Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • Want
  • Growing

• The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Good
  • Challenge
  • Very

• If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Country
  • Real
  • Change

• Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Conversation
  • Group
  • Twitter

• Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Development
  • Class
  • West

• Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Book

• To be one of the world's top space robotic arm operators is a necessary skill for an astronaut, but it doesn't have much carry-over.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • World
  • Space

• I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are needs in this country. Not too far from your house, if you look around, people need to be helped.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.

  

  Jonathan Haidt
  • People
  • Long

• There are various art forms we may or may not have talent for, may or may not have time for, and we may or may not be able to express ourselves in, but we ought to consider this fact-that whether we choose to be an environment or not, we are. We produce an environment other people have to live in. We should be conscious of the fact that this environment which we produce by our very 'being' can affect the people who live with us or work with us.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • People