Boris Johnson Quotes
Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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I like being unconventional.
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I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.
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My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.
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That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.
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Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
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This volume was written for children. Miss Landon set out its purpose in the preface.
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Here I still flow in God as a small stream of time, There I shall be a sea of blessedness sublime
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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
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Every form of payment has some risk associated with it.
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Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.
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I got married. My wife changed her name. I know some women have a problem with that. But I wanted her to have my old girlfriend's name. So call me old-fashioned, but this fella does what the Bible tells.
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Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed.
