Boris Johnson Quotes
It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.
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If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
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Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.
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You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'
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Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.
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The journalist must do his work in a kind of deliberately induced state of moral anarchy.
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The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.
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It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.
