Ken Livingstone Quotes

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.

Ban Ki-moon
- Power
- Plants
- Be Prepared
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

Viggo Mortensen
- People
- Nature
- Think
When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

Daisaku Ikeda
- Hope
- Energy
- Light
Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

Karen Armstrong
It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

Felicity Kendal
- Up
- Long
- Career
Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.

Dallas Roberts
- You
- Play
- Will