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

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Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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Would that the simple maxim that honesty is the best policy might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

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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. My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her like a bank note for two 20s.
  • 2. Old age has its pleasures which though different are not less than the pleasures of youth.
  • 3. At a young age I was interested in comic books which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I've performed in Auburn Hills at The Palace so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit but I've been able to be here and I can really see what the city was. Like I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.
  • 2. Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
  • 3. I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup which is an amazing two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.

3 Anger

  • 1. The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
  • 2. Anger cannot be dishonest.
  • 3. Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 2. See the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it the bitter honesty is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – 'You must live life this way' – and these guys were bored.
  • 3. Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking for him because that morning there was no rose.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Liquid architecture. It's like jazz – you improvise you work together you play off each other you make something they make something. And I think it's a way of – for me it's a way of trying to understand the city and what might happen in the city.
  • 2. We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
  • 3. We all love musical architecture there's no doubt about that.
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