Ken Livingstone Quotes
One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
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Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.
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We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
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I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
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I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.
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If you can give away free music, you can give away free electricity, free water. Those tiny jabs at a larger infrastructure are what make revolutions.
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The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This turf must be shared.
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In my big group of girlfriends at home, I am definitely not the best looking. I did not grow up feeling like I was particularly attractive.
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Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.
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There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.
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One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.
