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Sadiq Khan Quotes

When I was growing up, anyone who wasn't white was black. It meant all of us. Though when I was at university, we started to be called Asians.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: british
Birth: October 8, 1970

Topics

Growing Up Black White Growing Up

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

Child Way Never Engage Interest Had

Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress.

Queen Dress Boy Who England Needs

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

Truth Justice Struggle Impossible

There's something fundamentally grubby about the rich paying people to seek out cracks in the system to hide their money.

Money People Rich Hide Out System

Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable because they were a lot like me - caused considerable consternation when they were first published, but now they're widely accepted as an essential part of the children's literary canon.

Children Me Growing Up Growing Now

The French Revolution ends slavery unilaterally. And it does so at this moment when the British, the Spanish, the Portuguese and the Americans - all of the other major powers - keep slavery. And the fact is that it's almost bankrupting the French Colonial Empire.

Moment Slavery Revolution Empire

I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt.

School Look Everything Out Against

Because there are little to no consequences for conducting cyberattacks, criminals and nation-states are becoming bolder in their threats and behavior. Russia, China, North Korea and Iran are increasingly hacking into U.S. companies and government networks for espionage purposes or financial gain.

Government Financial Behavior China

What I love to do is paint people's faces, y'know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what's going on behind their eyes.

Love Eyes People You Find Want

My dad never really played basketball, but now he's my biggest critic. I come home, and he says: 'Why didn't you shoot there? Why didn't you drive?'

Home Basketball Drive You Why Never

The U.S. intelligence community is in a very poor position to be trusted with protecting civil liberties while engaging in intelligence work.

Chelsea Manning

Work Community Intelligence Poor

If people really, really like what we make, 10 minutes after we upload it, we start thinking about new videos.

Anthony Padilla

People Start Thinking New Videos

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