Ken Livingstone Quotes
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
J. G. Ballard
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
Danai Gurira
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
J. D. Vance
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
Taylor Sheridan
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
Barry Mann
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The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.
Dan Coats
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'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
Barbara Windsor
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
P. J. Harvey
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I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
Karrine Steffans
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
Carlo Goldoni
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Really, truly, try to figure out what your palate is all about. If you've determined that you don't like dirty old stinky wine - old-world flavors - you probably like new-world fruit bombs. Stick to Shirazes and California Cabernets or Zinfandels.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.
Finn Jones
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George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.
Gary Weiss
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I'll probably always be 'Timothy Spall's son' and it's something I'm proud of. Maybe one day as well as that, they'll say of Timothy Spall that 'He's Rafe Spall's dad'.
Rafe Spall
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We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.
Larry David
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To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.
L. Neil Smith
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As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'
Emmanuel Jal
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How close we could look into a bright future should two, three or many Vietnams flourish throughout the world.
Che Guevara
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I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life.
Darrell Issa
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To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.
Anton Chekhov
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I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the books, the food, even the cutlery. So I learned very early to appreciate the value of design and the value of architecture.
Neri Oxman
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I do the gardening.
Ken Livingstone