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“I am ambivalent about London because I am so ambivalent about England in general.”

“London. Another terrorist attack and ISIS claimed credit. I am surprised because I thought we had wiped out ISIS on day one as Donald Trump said.”

Said Trump Credit London Terrorist Isis Terrorist Attacks

Author:Bill Maher

“There is one school of thought that says Mayors should cut ribbons, be funny and be a buffoon. The other school of thought is that we can do more. Scotland is getting more powers. Wales is getting more powers. Greater Manchester. London needs more powers.”

Needs Should School Can Do Greater Cutting London Scotland Mayors Manchester Wales Ribbons Buffoons

Author:Sadiq Khan

“London has always been open to trade, people, ideas. We have to keep that. I want to compete not just with New York, Paris, Berlin... the ten fastest growing cities in the world are in China. How do we compete with them? We have to attract investment and we have to compete on skills.”

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Author:Sadiq Khan

“I'm going to bring in something called the London Living Rent. These are homes where rent is one third of average local earnings.”

Home Thirds Average London Locals Earning

Author:Sadiq Khan

“I am the only candidate for mayor of London with the experience of being a transport minister.”

London Ministers Candidates Mayors Transport

Author:Sadiq Khan

“We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.”

Needs Term Millions Tree Streets Safe Plant London Cycles Why Not Squares Parliament Mayors Oxford Oxford Street

Author:Sadiq Khan

“What London wants is a champion, a fighter for London. It doesn't want a patsy of George Osborne or David Cameron.”

Want London Fighter Champion Cameron

Author:Sadiq Khan

“I would use the power of procurement, I would say if you want to do business with the mayor of London, you must pay your staff a London Living Wage.”

Ifs Want Use Pay London Staff Mayors Living Wage Procurement

Author:Sadiq Khan

“London had always been different. There is the old saying that Britain is ten years behind America, and the country as a whole is ten years behind London. If you have a Mayor of London working for jobs and growth and strong businesses, that is going to create opportunities for businesses and people in Burnley or Hull and places all over the UK.”

People Ifs Years Different Country Whole Jobs America Opportunity Strong Growth Behinds Ten London Britain Mayors Old Saying Hull

Author:Sadiq Khan

“The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.”

World Needs London Isolation Friendly Composing

Author:George Benjamin

“The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.”

Stills Certain Class London Hierarchy

Author:Ben Kingsley

“A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.”

Ifs Men May Rooms London Drawing Gentleman Thorough

Book:The Water Babies

Source: The Water Babies

“In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.”

Ifs Soul Light Literature Rain Clouds London Weather My Soul Cloudy

Author:Jerzy Kosinski

“On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them.”

Night London Princess One Night Wales Debut Duchess

Author:Lillie Langtry

“I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.”

World Want Writing Wanted Film Areas England Studios London New World 1960s Emerging Suburbs Metropolitan

Author:J. G. Ballard

“London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.”

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Author:John Legend

“I like where I live here, in London.”

London

Author:Annie Lennox

“Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.”

Has Beens Home London Stopping

Author:Annie Lennox

“One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.”

Home School Lines Half Class Boys Gone Streets Middle Fronts Privilege London Middle Class Household Dichotomy Good Boy

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.”

Country Crime Grew Grew Up Highest Rate London Crime Rates

Author:Leona Lewis

“I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.”

Rights Gay London Gay Rights Advocating

Author:Ken Livingstone

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

Inspirational Writing Inspiration Funny Waiting Creativity Creative Written Design Inspire Witty Clubs London Pursuit Life Changing Favourite Be Creative Creative Writing Funny Inspirational Carpe Diem Writing Advice Creative People Great Writers Writers And Writing Writer's Block Creative Art Writing By Writers Creativity And Innovation Great Writing Funny Motivational Creative Artists Blank Pages Creative Ideas Art And Artists Creativeness Art And Creativity Ideas And Creativity Story Writing Writing From The Heart Writing Stories Inspire Creativity Inspiration And Creativity Creativity And Writing Getting Started Inspiration To Write Famous Writers Inspiring Writing Innovation Inspiration Creative Writers Writing From Famous Authors Writing Short Creativity In Business Creativity And Business Creativity And Design Funniest Inspirational Relentless Pursuit Short Writing Art Inspiration Business Writing

Book:Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer

Source: Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”

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Author:Jack London

“The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.”

Rights Citizens London Agreement Friday Entitlement Dublin Good Friday Happy Friday Basic Rights

Book:An Irish Eye

Source: An Irish Eye

“As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film.”

Want Years Film Night Space Views Watches Audience Four Example Years Ago Theater London Filmmaker Seats Stanley Odyssey Space Odyssey 2001 A Space Odyssey

Author:Michael Mann

“I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.”

Humor Funny Hate Energy Environment Rain I Hate Leaving Climate Change London Weather Flood Drought Londoners Good Weather

Author:Groucho Marx

“From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.”

Years School Three Courses Acting Drama London Theatre Three Years Theatre Acting

Author:Ewan McGregor

“I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.”

Plans Towns London

Author:Ewan McGregor

“The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.”

Humans Instinct Terror London Texas September September 11 Will Power Hood Lives Of Others Forts Madrid Acts Of Terror

Author:Jon Meacham

“When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.”

Inspirational Stills Three New York Humorous England London Clock City Of London

Author:Bette Midler

“One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.”

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Author:David Miliband

“I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.”

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Author:Nicki Minaj

“I understand that artists and critics make a big deal over the Grammys. But when I go to my shows and I'm selling out arenas in London, and when I'm in Australia and Japan, there aren't any Grammys there. There are human beings who I've touched. There are human beings who are inspired by me, who I love dearly. And that's what my career is based on.”

Humans Shows Bigs Artist Human Beings Deals Careers Critics Inspired London Selling Touched Japan Australia Arena Big Deal Selling Out

Author:Nicki Minaj

“The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.”

Laughing Sun Fronts Pages London Treasure Ran Declaring National Treasure

Author:Kylie Minogue

“Every now and again I want to go to the beach and be in the sun, but that's a very rare feeling, so I could live in London, definitely.”

Want Feelings Sun London Beach

Author:Taylor Momsen

“London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.”

Has Beens Used Cities England London Representatives

Author:Alan Moore

“I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.”

Ifs Want Home Dad Spring My Dad Excuse London Chickens Coming Home Stamps Postage Postage Stamps

Author:Emily Mortimer

“I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, 'If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.'”

Ifs Want Firsts Said Ends London Nightmare Mum Modeling

Author:Kate Moss

“I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.”

World Hard Lost London

Book:An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India

Source: An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India

“I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That's like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we're called 'Jews'? Because we come from Judea.”

Knows America Jew Israel British London Jerusalem Accusing

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.”

Results Principles Boxes London Devices Mixing Gum Chewing Inspection Chewing Gum

Author:Cecil Beaton

“I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'”

World Way Cities New York Exciting London Paris New York City Rome City Life Great Cities Nyc Cities In The World I Love New York

Author:Robert De Niro

“I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.”

Want Middle Paper Sells London Retiring Papers

Author:Graham Norton

“I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.”

Home Literature London Dickens

Author:Ben Okri

“I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.”

Soul Kids Used Bits Boys Listening Grew Taste Grew Up South London Suits Shops Brown Pants Eclectic Bowie Neighbourhoods Taste In Music Eclectic Style Toppers

Author:Gary Oldman

“So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.”

Kids Age Nice Mets London Harry Potter Thrilling Potters

Author:Gary Oldman

“I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.”

May Long Environment Gun London

Author:Clive Owen

“For me, London is and always will be home.”

Home London

Author:Clive Owen

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