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I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.

Ken Livingstone

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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
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Former Mayor Of London
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Kenneth Robert Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Ken Livingstone
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I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.
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Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
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I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.
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When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.
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When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.
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I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
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I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.
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All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?
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It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.
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It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.
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What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.
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The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
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My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.
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I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.
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I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
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