Ken Livingstone Quotes
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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'.
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Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.
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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.
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Remember, FDA employees are serious about fear. We pay these people to panic about an iota of rodent hair in our chili, even when the recipe calls for it. FDA employees are first-class agonizers, world champions at losing sleep. When Meryl Streep got hysterical about Alar, they actually checked the apples instead of Meryl's head.
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They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler.
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Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
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Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years later. To have him write political science fiction is both appropriate and intriguing.
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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.
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You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.
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China is a very important growth market for us.
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I do the gardening.
