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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.

Boris Johnson

I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad … he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.
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Conclusion Mad Need Professional Reality
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
Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.
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Crisis Essay Life Oneself
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
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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Chance Finding Myself
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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Good Life Media Writing
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’m afraid Sadiq Khan is completely wrong. The European Court of Justice is the supreme legal authority in our country.
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Authority Country Justice
The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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Country Olympics People Scales
Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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Darkness Force Intense Power
Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism – that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.
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Communism Democracy Replacement Tyranny Wrong
What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equalled if not exceeded in foulness by the Soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms.
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Forced Foulness Pogrom Soviet Starvation
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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Clothes Emperor Myself People Talk
We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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Celebrate Country People
The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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Conservative Meat Sausage
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
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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Goodness Myself Remember Talk
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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Book People Play Watch
Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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Conscious Myself Project Stay Try
My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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Ideals Trying World
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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Becoming Chance Redneck
I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad … he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.
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Mad Needs Reality
I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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Country Place Want Work
You know, sometimes I don’t understand what’s wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don’t seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property.
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Country Hands Jet/ Engines
The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what’s going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.
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Force Imbalance Looks People System
I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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Healthy School Sweet
If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn’t ever get anywhere.
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Guard Judgment Stupidity

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