Boris Johnson Quotes
I would like to thank first the vast multitudes who voted against me - and I have met quite a few in the last nine months, not all of them entirely polite.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
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I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.
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The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.
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One of the best things about good mothers is that they remind their children to take care of themselves.
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Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
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He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.
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The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue.
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I would like to thank first the vast multitudes who voted against me - and I have met quite a few in the last nine months, not all of them entirely polite.
