Boris Johnson Quotes
We are confident in our story and will be fighting this all the way. I am very sorry that Alastair Campbell has taken this decision but I can see that he got his tits in the wringer.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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War is over if you want it.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
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Interviewer: What would you say is the most overrated virtue? Dworkin: Compliance and conformity.... Being normal is seriously overrated.
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I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.
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We are confident in our story and will be fighting this all the way. I am very sorry that Alastair Campbell has taken this decision but I can see that he got his tits in the wringer.
