Ken Livingstone Quotes
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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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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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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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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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.'
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Women drive box office.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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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.
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Film is a great tool to play with time, going back and forth through time, or speeding time up and slowing it down and do stuff like that. That's something you can't experience in real life that you can experience on film, and it takes you to a different place.
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Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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In Hollywood especially, if you're gay and conservative, it's worse to be a conservative in the gay community than it is to be a conservative in Hollywood.
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It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance.
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When I was 14, I saw 'Waiting for Godot.' It's one of those plays that if it's done badly is absolutely dire and can put you off acting for life. But I was laughing all the way through it.
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There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional.
