Boris Johnson Quotes
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
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Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.
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I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
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That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.
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When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.
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You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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I have this dream that the first responders to 911 calls will not be law enforcement personnel but robots. Robots can put eyes and ears on the scene much faster than you can with policemen or women.
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I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.
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And that brings me to my final thank you which is of course to the people of London.
