Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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More Boris Johnson Quotes
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London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
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Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is, I’m afraid a job destroying engine. You can see it all across southern Europe, you can see it, alas, in our country.
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My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
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I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn’t go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.
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I’m no communist.I’m a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
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David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a ‘born leader’, declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister.
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We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth-and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans.
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Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It’s time for a rethink, and the Tory party – the funkiest, most jiving party on Earth – is where it’s happening.
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I don’t believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.
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Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
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I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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The difference between Hitler’s speeches and Churchill’s speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.
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