Ken Livingstone Quotes
Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
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A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
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I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.
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Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.
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Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.
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Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.
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I'm not ever going to be dependent on someone else for a job.
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Your brain is not designed to make you happy. That's your job!
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.