Ken Livingstone Quotes

There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional.

Ken Livingstone

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• I spend my own money, not other people's money.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • People
  • Money
  • My Own

• Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Looking

• I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Good
  • Nothing
  • Changed

• In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Nature
  • Words

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Earth
  • Computers
  • Studying

• Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Character
  • Hand
  • Intelligence

• I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Energy
  • Air
  • Goal

• I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Women drive box office.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Office
  • Box

• Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Makes

• I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Knowledge
  • Years
  • Last

• I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Wedding
  • White
  • Dress

• In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • School
  • Reality

• Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Time
  • Work
  • Like

• Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Voice
  • Internet
  • Microphone

• If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

  

  George Carey
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • Doubt

• I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Good
  • Success

• On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.

  

  John Abercrombie
  • Opportunity

• Any kind of problem you have in your life, you come to Bikram. Your life becomes the best in the world.

  

  Bikram Choudhury
  • Life
  • World

• Adversity will surface in some form in every life. How we prepare for it, how we meet it, makes the difference. We can be broken by adversity, or we can become stronger. The final result is up to the individual'.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Broken

• There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • Life