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Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.

No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting; and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.

Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.

To restore America we need less Marx and more Madison.

The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

For me it was just more important to get the cancer out. With the double mastectomy I now have less than one per cent chance of getting it back, otherwise it was 20, 30 or 40 per cent chance and for me it wasn't worth it.