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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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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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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I have never worried if my daughter has fallen sick, and I am somewhere else, because there is always somebody to take care of her.
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There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
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Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.
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My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.
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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.