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The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start.

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

The more confident one becomes, the less one needs all people to be the same.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.

Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.

I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.