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I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I work out, my arms look better.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

More of the same will just produce more of the same: less competitiveness, less growth, fewer jobs.

We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.

Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

For too many, to work means having less income.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.

Because we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem.

In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

More law, less justice.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

The more laws, the less justice.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.

Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt.

When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

He has all those different aspects to him, so I can more or less decide as a performer how I'm going to deliver a line in a particular scene, or play a particular scene in total.

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

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

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

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.

The more we have the less we own.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.

A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.

The less I talk about being black, the better.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy.

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

I couldn't care less about who sees my bits... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!

I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.