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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One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we do everything. My view is that today’s computer world is based on techie misunderstandings of human thought and human life. And the imposition of inappropriate structures throughout the computer is the imposition of inappropriate structures on the things we want to do in the human world.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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There are few people who define the word, 'rock star' better than U2's Bono. He's revered the world over not just for leading one of the biggest bands ever, but for his very public work on behalf of the underprivileged in Africa.
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I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.
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Well, I get on with people who believe in something.
