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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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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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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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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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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The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.
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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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It's inspiring to watch people love my dad and want to work with him. I feel that same investment in making sure people are happy.
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Man is sick and nations have gone mad. You would not even tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace in the acts of some nations. You would lock up such a person.
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To get Xi Jinping to help with our Pyongyang problem, Trump has dropped all talk of befriending Taiwan, backed off Tillerson's warning to Beijing to vacate its fortified reefs in the South China Sea, and held out promises of major concessions to Beijing in future trade deals.
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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?
