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.
BORIS JOHNSONDark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
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They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.
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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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I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
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London is a fantastic creator of jobs – but many of these jobs are going to people who don’t originate in this country.
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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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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.
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Can I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can’t now remember what any of them were.
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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
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All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.
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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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It hasn’t taken them long, they began by telling us they would have a positive and patriotic case and they’re back to project fear within minutes. There they go again they have nothing positive to say.
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