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You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The more people who come from abroad who played soccer and are brought up playing it and watching it, then come over to America and bring what they know and what they play, that's how the sport will grow.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

The more you make fun of yourself and don't try to go for any kind of respect, the more people seem to respect you.

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.