It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.
BORIS JOHNSONThis is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.
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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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I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people’s attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.
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Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
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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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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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I think it’d be disgraceful if a chap wasn’t allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went to Vegas and you didn’t misbehave in some trivial way.
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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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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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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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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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My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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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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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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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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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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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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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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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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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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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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I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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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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It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.
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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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