Ken Livingstone Quotes
I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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My dream is to stand in front of 60,000 people in an arena and know that everyone came because they wanted to make memories with me.
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As America's nuclear strategic monopoly faded, the United States sought to create advantages elsewhere, notably in the peaceful cooperation between the United States and communist China under Deng Xiaoping.
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I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.
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I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
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Whenever I hear you saying, rise and shine, rise and shine, it makes me think how lucky dead people are!
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who did not want to make that distinction: who thought that we all sounded alike, and we all were in lockstep.
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Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.
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Nobody in this world thinks they're having enough sex. Watch any night on television, or any comedian in a nightclub, and every other joke is about people who aren't getting enough.
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People learn English from 'Full House.' Candace's husband, Valeri Bure, he learned to speak English watching it... 'Aw, nuts.' 'You got it, dude.'
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If I have a meeting or need to look more done up, the thing I can always do is a cat eye.
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The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.
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Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.
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When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.
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We're playing to get our quality of play where we think it needs to be and get some momentum going into the playoffs. We'd obviously also like to gain home ice and if we can do that, then mission accomplished.
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I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.
