Boris Johnson Quotes
I'm made up of immigrant stock. I went to a primary school in London. I grew up eating Spangles, why shouldn't I be as well placed to speak for Londoners as anyone else?
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I like sitting close to windows.
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
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Now my goal is to be strong. I get two classes in a week, and they'll be either barre or reformer Pilates.
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When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
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Body love is more than acceptance of self or the acceptance of the body. Body love is about self-worth in general. It's more than our physical appearance.
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We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together.
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When I was in Grade 9, there was an election for high school president, and one of the candidates told us that if we elected him, he would abolish homework. He promised this to the entire student body from the stage in the school gymnasium.
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You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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I'm made up of immigrant stock. I went to a primary school in London. I grew up eating Spangles, why shouldn't I be as well placed to speak for Londoners as anyone else?
