If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn’t ever get anywhere.
BORIS JOHNSONLondon 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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It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness.
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I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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People are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.
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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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He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.
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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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Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
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I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
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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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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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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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Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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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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This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.
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