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I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn`t fully appreciate. But I`m now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.

- Ben Affleck

In the lap-band procedure, we put an elastic band around the neck of the stomach, just below the end of the esophagus. Solid food has to cross the band to get to the lower part of the stomach, so you don`t need to eat as much to feel full.

- Robert Ri'chard

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

- Dylan Moran

(About being held up at an airport for refusing to be parted from the manuscript of her seventh "Harry Potter" book): The heightened security restrictions on the airlines made the journey back from New York interesting, as I refused to be parted from the manuscript of book seven. A large part of it is handwritten and there was no copy of anything I had done while in the U.S. They let me take it on thankfully, bound up in elastic bands. I don`t know what I would have done if they hadn`t -- sailed home probably.

- J.K. Rowling

I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it`s an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.

- Ang Lee
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The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written

- Franklin D. Roosevelt