Ken Livingstone Quotes
I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.
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On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.
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Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.
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I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.
