Ken Livingstone Quotes
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
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The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.
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There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than in houses, stocks and gold. The higher rates climb, the happier they are to invest. So if austerity plans drive rates up, it's music to Italian ears.
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My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you do on a first date? The more I thought about it, the more fun I had imagining what you'd serve a vampire for dinner.
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Well, I get on with people who believe in something.
