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I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.

There were 14,000 people at the rally for the president in Ohio. There were another 8,000 people in Virginia. If all 22,000 of those people opened their wallets and gave $1,000 each, that would be less than one donation from a billionaire to the super PACs. And that's why he's in for the fight of his life.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!

I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.

There's no way in the world that just because women turn the number 40, they're anything less than amazing. That's crazy. If anything, you're even more amazing!

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public.

In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.

In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.