Ken Livingstone Quotes
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Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.
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Ted Cruz ,when he was running for president, was a huge 'Princess Bride' fan. He would quote the lines and, you know, trying to win families and everything.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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I'm not really a pianist.
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I am passionate about acting. 'Girls in our family are not allowed to act' is quite an outdated thought to have. They did it till my mother, but now no more.
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The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
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It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?
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When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.
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I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.
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Keep wishing you were me, and I'll keep making you have to.
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I'm never as happy as when I'm pregnant. I literally would have 10 babies if I could!
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The chief job of foreign policy today is helping to figure out the rules for the global economy and defending each nation's interests within it.
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As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claw.
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I refuse not to have a sense of humour.
