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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. "
Ken Livingstone
Off
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" I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. "
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" I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself. "
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" I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education. "
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" There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work. "
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" Psephology isn't a hate crime. "
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" I've never declined to do an interview. "
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" I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights. "
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" I grew up in a house with very few books. "
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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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