Boris Johnson Quotes

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

Boris Johnson

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• I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • People
  • Live
  • Best

• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Genius

• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • She
  • Character
  • You

• If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Want
  • Government
  • Hands

• The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Best
  • Player
  • Ever

• We have such a loyal following in London that we decided to open a shop, and I find Albemarle Street extremely charming and special.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Find
  • Special
  • London

• Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Funny

• We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Want
  • Man
  • Space

• I literally went down to my car and thought, 'Oh my God, SAP bought Concur - maybe tomorrow they'll buy Dairy Queen.' It was the best thing that happened to me on the day I was named CEO of Oracle.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • God
  • Day
  • Car

• When I'm about to go on stage, and I look out and just see the fans filled out in the arena, all pumped up and screaming - that gives me butterflies! I just love that feeling, and I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, it's gonna be a great show!'

  

  Manika
  • Feeling
  • Like
  • Gives

• Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Children
  • Money
  • Parents

• Even though 'Hemlock Grove' was a serious, supernatural mystery, it was pretty fun on set. It was a light mood.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Fun
  • Pretty
  • Light

• Death and the dice level all distinctions.

  

  Samuel Foote
  • Death
  • Level
  • Dice

• I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Child
  • Well
  • Still

• It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • May
  • Sick
  • Strange

• Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Women
  • Respect

• At this point I ceased argument with Lt. Goforth and shot him in the belly.

  

  C. J. Cherryh

• Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

  

  Joan Fontaine
  • Marriage
  • Bird

• I don't want to justify religion in terms of its benefits to us. I believe that, on balance, it does a lot of bad things, too - a tremendous amount. But I don't think that the final justification of religion is the good it does for people. I think the final justification is that it's true, and truth takes priority over consequences. Religion helps us deal with what is most important to the human spirit: values, meaning, purpose, and quality.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Religion
  • Balance
  • I Believe

• People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • People
  • Depression
  • Grief

• We didn't deserve to win that game. If we would have won that game, it would have defied the laws of basketball.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Game
  • Win
  • Deserve

• We see the world in terms of our theories.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • World
  • Term
  • Theory

• My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

  

  Boris Johnson