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There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.

Beauty is less important than quality.

Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

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

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

I think people are starting to think of me less as an actor and more as a writer.

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.