Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet quotes
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“I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters.”
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“I'm frank, brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank, I look frank.”
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“I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money.”
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“Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.”
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“Like having your own licence to print money.”
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“As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with.”
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“I've got money so I'm a Conservative.”
-- Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
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Source : Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.19, Cambridge University Press
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Source : A. L. Kennedy (2007). “Day”, Random House
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Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press
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Source : "Paris in Love: A Memoir". Book by Eloisa James, April 3, 2012.
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“My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.”
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