Ken Livingstone Quotes
The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
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I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
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Blizzard was of the fine old school of butlers. His appearance suggested that for fifteen years he had not let a day pass without its pint of port. He radiated port and pop-eyed dignity. He had splay feet and three chins, and when he walked his curving waistcoat preceded him like the advance guard of some royal procession.
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My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.
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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.
