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Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson
British Politician
Born: Jun 19, 1964
Believe Good Life People Think You
Related authors: David Cameron Diane Abbott Jeremy Corbyn John Bercow Neil Kinnock Nigel Farage Priti Patel Theresa May
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive. Boris Johnson
Good Elvis Finding Mars About Being Reincarnated Olive Chances
It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them. Boris Johnson
Work Hard Work Promises Easy Make Them Hard Keep
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis. Boris Johnson
Elvis Minister Finding Prime Prime Minister Becoming Frisbee Being Much Chance
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters. Boris Johnson
Myself Opportunities Indeed Only Disasters Fresh Discovered Friends
If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more. Boris Johnson
Needs People Opportunity Will Country Own Holding Back Our System Unnecessary Relieved Able Laws More Count Outside Votes Also Make Policies Priorities Leave Huge Huge Amount Huge Opportunity Get Tax EU Regulation Amount Set Suit
The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition. Boris Johnson
Lib Vast Void Empty Within Surrounded Just Vacuum
I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do. Boris Johnson
Politics Good Thought High Good Thing Noble Calling Sort Always Thing
I used to get very, very frustrated by people being told what to do by nanny in Brussels. And I remember once I rang the official who was actually responsible for banning the prawn-cocktail-flavoured crisp, which I think contained a dye called Arithrazine or something like that. Boris Johnson
People Remember Think Once Rang Crisp Responsible Something Brussels Contained Like Nanny Very Get Official Being Dye Banning Which Frustrated Used Who Actually
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. Boris Johnson
You Yourself Cheese Down Back Hunk Prevent Absolutely No-One Tidy Edges Fridge Up Sneaking Middle Apart Who Night
I think people have a legitimate right to minimise their tax obligations if they can, but they should pay their fair whack. I do think it's important to be transparent. Boris Johnson
Obligations People Important Pay Think Fair Whack Tax Legitimate Should Transparent Right
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. But in the end you have a great sense of personal dissatisfaction. Boris Johnson
Life Time Good Great You Writing World Good Time Sense Good Life Possible TV Pretty Parasite Pretty Good About Having Having A Good Time Studio Great Sense Pieces End Personal Being In The End Media Inconsequential Career Dissatisfaction
There's an idea that London is a planet on its own: that it's starting to diverge from the rest of the solar system. We need to combat that. Boris Johnson
Solar Rest Own Solar System System London Idea Combat Planet Starting Need
Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed. Boris Johnson
Myself Sometimes Old Think Too Keys Typewriter Once Ways Feel Come Get Forward Many Expressing
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. Boris Johnson
Style Schwarzenegger Arnold Arnold Schwarzenegger Friends Than Authority Rhetorical Low Skills Speaking Less Moment
Obama's extraordinary political skills suggest he is more than capable of rising above any personal historical grudges he may have inherited. Boris Johnson
Political Extraordinary Obama Above Rising More He Historical Than Personal Any May Capable Skills Inherited Grudges Suggest
I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I have with Winston Churchill. Boris Johnson
Churchill Sloth One-Eyed More Winston Winston Churchill Than Common Olive
Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything. Boris Johnson
Life My Life Think Would Would-Be Never Did Mick Jagger Jagger Achieving Anything
I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles. Boris Johnson
Politics Time Change People Better Long Long Time Journalist Change Things Other Kicking Crisis Possible Kind Something Had Over Get Pitch Endlessly Stop Decided Things Needed
I'm made up of immigrant stock. I went to a primary school in London. I grew up eating Spangles, why shouldn't I be as well placed to speak for Londoners as anyone else? Boris Johnson
Speak School Made Else Immigrant London Eating Primary Primary School Well Up Stock Anyone Grew Anyone Else Placed Why
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 Johnson
Life Time Good Writing World Good Time Good Life Possible TV Pretty Parasite Pretty Good About Having Having A Good Time Studio Pieces Being Media Career
I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton. Boris Johnson
Good Thousands Like Schools
The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics. Boris Johnson
Job London Unbelievably Particularly Mayor Taxing Olympics
It just happens I write fast and always have done. Boris Johnson
Write Always Done Just Happens Fast
I'm a one-nation Tory. Boris Johnson
Tory
I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work. Boris Johnson
Work London Come Want Dynamic Place Competitive
We are experiencing such large support for the Olympic relay that our advice is to stay in your neighbourhood, stay in your borough and wait for it to come near you. Boris Johnson
You Wait Advice Our Relay Neighbourhood Stay Support Come Experiencing Your Large Near Olympic
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