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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You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.
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Give it your best shot. Go for it. If it's what you really want to do, go for it. Even if you don't make it, you will never look back and have regrets. You can always say, "Hey, I went for it. I tried my hardest. It was an awesome experience."
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In 'John Henry Days,' I was taking my idea of junketeering and sort of blowing it up to absurd extremes.
Colson Whitehead -
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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Look at what's happening between Main Street and Wall Street. The stock market index is up 136 percent from the bottom. Middle class jobs lost during the correction: six million. Middle class jobs recovered: one million. So therefore we're up 16 percent on the jobs that were lost. These are only born-again jobs. We don't really have any new jobs, and there's a massive speculative frenzy going on in Wall Street that is disconnected from the real economy.
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I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.
