"Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring."

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Source : "Rachel Johnson: 'The "Boris's sister" thing pisses me off'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2012.

Rachel Johnson

“What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy, and that's just about the same thing.”
“But if you look at teams that want to share more revenues, they're teams that don't have a lot on the table. They've long since not had any serious investment in their team.”
“People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job.”

Source : "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 16, 2003.
“Goals help you channel your energy into action.”
“[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.”
“I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.”
“Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.”

Source : "Saving the economy or saving the planet is not an either-or" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2008.
“My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.”

Source : Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.74

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