Ken Livingstone Quotes

I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.

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• Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Skill

• Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Think
  • Insurance

• The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Exercise

• Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Problem

• Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Today
  • Progress
  • Computers

• Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Goals
  • Sense
  • Places

• It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • Good
  • Man

• My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Time
  • Change
  • Imagination

• The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Death
  • Body
  • Spirit

• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Earth
  • Hot

• I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!'

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Long
  • Saying

• I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Work
  • Love
  • Language

• Of course the job has a lot of glamour. But it really is about being smarter than your average bear. Your mind is your best weapon. It's great when you're a good shot with an AK-47, but it's about being clever.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Good
  • Great
  • Mind

• I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's the greatest thing in the world; it's like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It's the biggest thrill in my life.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Life
  • World
  • Air

• I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Small

• I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Team
  • Year
  • Injuries

• Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Transformation
  • Your
  • Beyond

• I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Men
  • Why
  • Generation

• And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

  

  James T. Walsh
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians in their isolation, the most selfish and ungrateful in their cocoons, the most unjust of employers and the most overweening of snobs. The love of Christ embraces all without exception.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Jesus
  • Arms
  • Employers

• The writers job is to get naked, To hide nothing. To look away from nothing. To look at it. To not blink. To be not embarrassed or shamed of it. Strip it down and lets get down to where the blood is, the bone is. Instead of hiding it with clothes and all kinds of other stuff, luxury!

  

  Harry Crews
  • Job
  • Writers

• Instituting equal pay is especially important because families in our country increasingly rely on women's wages to make ends meet. When women bring home less money each day, it means they have less for the everyday needs of their families - groceries, rent, child care, and doctors' visits.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Important
  • Women
  • Country

• I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.

  

  Ken Livingstone