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Boris Johnson

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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Capital Home Myself Sports World
Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
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Age Character Darkness Humanity
I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
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Believe Female Males
I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.
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Enemy Myself Rival
This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope…
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Doubt Moments Self
We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.
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Football Soccer Sports
But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
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Ancestor Freedom Hands Ourselves People
Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.
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Crisis Essay Life Oneself
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
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Better Ideas People Truth
I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.
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People Risk Thinking
What makes the achievements of communist Russia so special and different, that you can simper around in a CCCP T-shirt, while anyone demented enough to wear anything commemorating the Third Reich would be speedily banged away under the 1986 Public Order Act?
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Achievement Commemorating Country Demented Wear
When Cameron’s Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.
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Conservatism Cycle Gold Power
The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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Country Olympics People Scales
My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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Birthday Cake Dessert
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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Betrayal Drugs Myself Sugar Thinking
He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.
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Business Debt House
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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Dangerous Earth Legal Perfection
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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Believe Economy Equality Essential Myself Possible Value
It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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Easy Hard Promise Work
Churchill decides from very early on that he will create a political position that is somehow above left and right, embodying the best points of both sides and thereby incarnating the will of the nation.
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Men Political Thinking
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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Facts Icing Thinking
He wished that Britain had ‘a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today’. This from the hero of the First World War! The man who had led Britain to victory over the Kaiser!
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Country Raised Today Victory
I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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Healthy School Sweet
I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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Cynical Interest Self
He thinks of himself as a gigantic keystone in the arch, with all the lesser stones logically induced to support his position. He has a kind of semi-ideology to go with it – a leftish Toryism: imperialist, romantic, but on the side of the working man.
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Ideology Lesser Logically Position
I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
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Drug Lines Remember
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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Goodness Life Possible Pretty Time Writing

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