Ken Livingstone Quotes
I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm as radical as libertarians come.
-
Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
-
I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
-
Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
-
You have to be yourself.
-
It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
-
I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
-
I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
-
What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
-
I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
-
My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
-
What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
-
If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
-
Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
-
If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
-
The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
-
Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
-
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
-
Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.
-
I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.
-
I've never seen the allure of being famous, because I know what that's like. It's part of work.
-
I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.
-
Research shows that if patients believe they are taking the real drug, they are more confident of improving and, so, improve even if they are actually on the placebo. Conversely, if they suspect they are taking the placebo, their expectancy of improvement declines, and so does their improvement.
-
I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
