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Boris Johnson quotes

British Politician June 19, 1964

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I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around. Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson quote: "I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in..."
I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick. Boris Johnson
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
Boris Johnson quote: "Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick..."
Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything. Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson quote: "I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done."
I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done. Boris Johnson
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
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters. Boris Johnson
My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fiend parents to write to Warner Bros and Universal, and perhaps, even, to the great J K herself. Bring Harry home to Britain—and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry... Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson quote: "That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he..."
That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me. Boris Johnson
My hero is the mayor in Jaws. He's a fantastic guy, and he keeps the beaches open, if you remember, even after it's demonstrated that his constituents have been eaten by this killer fish. Of course, he was proved catastrophically wrong in his judgment, but his instincts were right.'Boris Johnson is the mayor of London. Taken from Time Magazine interview: June 25, 2012; page 76. Boris Johnson
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. We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth—and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans. Whatever we invent, from the jet engine to the internet, we find that... Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson quote: "It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them."
It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them. Boris Johnson
What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work. Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson quote: "I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton."
I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton. Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson quote: "My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of..."
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

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