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I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.

Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And people dress wilder, I think, at the Grammys.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that's how they want you.

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.