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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
Autobiographer
Broadcaster
Former Mayor Of London
Politician
Kenneth Robert Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Ken Livingstone
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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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When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates, you have to think, 'You are a complete idiot.'
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I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.
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One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.
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Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.
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Everyone changes all the time.
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There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.
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I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
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Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.
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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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I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.
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I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
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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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My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints there are. It's not the world I would have created but you do what you can within it.
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I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.
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Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.
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