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I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.

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
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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 would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.
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We look to the left and to the right And we need help but nobody's in sight Where is the man that we all need Tell him he's to come and rescue me.
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