"Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam."

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Diane von Furstenberg

#Nice Quotes #Amsterdam Quotes #Ireland Quotes

“Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card”

Source : "Why You Lose at Chess". Book by Fred Reinfeld (p. 180), 1956.
“I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.”
“The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.”

Source : Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.309
“Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people give up their real riches for a cause that mutilates them; for an appearance that reifies them; for roles that wrest them from authentic life; for a time whose passage defines and confines them.”
“I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.”

Source : "Exclusive: Penélope Cruz on Shooting the 2013 Campari Calendar". Interview with Kristina Soriano, www.elle.com. November 13, 2012.
“I don't like to make my life like a book.”
“The biggest threat facing America is terrorists with weapons of mass destruction.”
“The repeat run of Fawlty Towers drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of The Spectator is incapable of seeing the joke, which is that Basil Fawlty has the wrong temperament to be a hotel proprietor, just as some other people have the wrong temperament to be television critics.”

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