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

• There's those young girls that I once was, looking up to Mia Hamm, Christine Lilly, all those players, and I know how much of an effect they had on me. Knowing that, I feel like I'm in a position where I can really help be a positive influence in girls' lives.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Up
  • Help
  • Positive

• Now that I've seen what war is ... I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • War
  • Know
  • Dead

• I just write about how I'm feeling at the time. If I feel like being cheeky and a bit straight up and a bit aggressive, you'll hear that in my music. If I feel like being very vulnerable and opening up about something personal, you'll hear that, too.

  

  Little Simz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Numbers
  • Jail
  • Innocent Men

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

  

  Boris Johnson