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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.

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.

Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.

I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.

Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable fuels cost less at the pump. It is a growth fuel that fuels opportunities for millions of Americans.

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.