Ken Livingstone Quotes
Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.
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When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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When we go to the pitch, that's all we want to do - we want to win - and when the game finishes, if you win, you go home happy.
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Baby steps count, as long as you are going forward. You add them all up, and one day you look back and you'll be surprised at where you might get to.
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Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.
