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I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people you have to educate and persuade and carry them with you – and it's often a long haul.

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Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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Category: Politics

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs you also remember the age kindly.
  • 2. Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time his day his age.
  • 3. My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life I just spend drinking.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved and you can have great marriages and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.
  • 2. Everyone says 'You give birth you go home and you have this amazing baby and it's just beautiful'. And I walked in and I just started sobbing.
  • 3. Brains don't really smell but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do but you could put your finger right through it.

3 Anger

  • 1. The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought and its first reaction is one of anger.
  • 2. Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
  • 3. Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. My mother and stepfather were married 43 years so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And you know it's just a number.
  • 2. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
  • 3. My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families.

5 Architecture

  • 1. In any architecture there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
  • 2. Architecture should speak of its time and place but yearn for timelessness.
  • 3. The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
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