Ken Livingstone Quotes
I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I have many times marveled at how I could feel so good about myself while eating peanuts in a middle seat on Southwest Airlines and yet feel so condescended to in first class on United.
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People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
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Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.
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I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.
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What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.
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Because I came into acting late, my references come from real life. That's my biggest inspiration. It's probably the reason I moved back to New York. I'm just a lot more inspired by real life than I am by depictions of real life.
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I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.
