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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.

I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent.

If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved.

We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.