Boris Johnson Quotes
I've done eight years as mayor of London. I enjoyed it hugely; it was a massive privilege.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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I married beneath me, all women do.
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.
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Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
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A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
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Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.
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Reading is important because it makes you smarter and lets you find out about things you're curious about.
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Every time I go to the dentist they say, 'You really need to fix that gap of yours'. I'm like, 'My gap is paying your dentist bills.'
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I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.
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My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.
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If you score 20 goals one season, then you have to promise yourself that in the following season you will get 25.
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I've done eight years as mayor of London. I enjoyed it hugely; it was a massive privilege.
