"Björk’s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet."

-- Jay Carr

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“If I could find a real life place to make me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name.”
“The development of weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to carry them would be a very destabilizing effect, should Iran be able to accomplish that.”
“You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”
“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.”
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.”
“Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty.”
“Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.”
“One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean, you have got to realize I've been on the run for more than 30 years. I have got to have had more than that.”

Source : "Ronnie Biggs's best quotes while on the run" by the Press Association, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2013.

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