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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.

Boris Johnson

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
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
I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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Interest Myself Pure Support
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
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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Minimize People Risk See Terrorism Thinking
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
It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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Fast Myself Writing
Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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Darkness Force Intense Power
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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Criticism Low Moments Skills Style Talk
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
People are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.
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Achievement Country People
My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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Better Ideas Trying World
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
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
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
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Chance Myself Opportunity
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

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