Ken Livingstone Quotes
Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
Quotes to Explore
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The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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There's a limit to how much you can deploy renewables, like wind or solar. People will talk about getting up to 30 percent of America's power from renewables, but you can't get to 100 percent because of their unreliability.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.
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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
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It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.
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I am not mean at all; I am not tough at all.
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Free men are the strongest men.
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I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.
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I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.
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I once had an editor advise me, as I was revising one of my early novels, to add more characters. I played around with the idea. As soon as I'd decided a few fresh faces and give them something to do, I realized that what my editor had really asked for was more plot. Ding. More characters equals more action.
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The NHS is a national organisation, but it is best delivered locally.
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Blessings star forth forever; but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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Since I was a kid, baking has been part of my life.
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Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
