Fewer Quotes - Page 9

• In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.

  Jack Abramoff

  Knives, People, Hollywood

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• The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Soul, Gold

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers: A sea turn, and other papers”

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• Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.

  Ken Blackwell

  Jobs, Government, Friendly

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• Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.

  Linwood Barclay

  Running, Opportunity, Light

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• Customers are willing to try new things, and if you can survive, you will have fewer competitors. It's like entering the eye of the storm. As long as you are strong enough to survive, you can end up in still water by yourself.

  Brian Chesky

  Strong, Eye, Water

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• There are so many good roles for women out there, I don't understand it when people say the role choices are fewer as you get older. I find the opposite to be true - there are less good roles out there for the hot 20-year-olds because the normal girl parts just aren't interesting.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Girl, Years, Opposites

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

  John Hurt

  Business, People, Performers

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

  Daniel Hannan

  Best Practices, Law, Citizens

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• In general in comedy, there are fewer people making a ton of money and a lot more people making a living. For me, the goal is just being able to make exactly the show I wanted to make.

  Nick Kroll

  People, Goal, Able

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.

  Cecile Richards

  Children, Rights, Care

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• Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer.

  Henry Ford

  Cancer, Cells, Disease

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• For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are...businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but -- ominously -- fewer and fewer people laugh at it.

  Neal Ascherson

  Past, Government, Years

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• Generally speaking, they have as many stars as other firms, but they are low-key about it, because that's not the Goldman way, but their bench is a lot deeper. I think Goldman has as many A players, but more importantly they have fewer C players. And no firm, I have noticed, has the depth anywhere like that.

  William D. Cohan

  Stars, Thinking, Player

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• If some confectioners were willing
  To let the shape announce the filling,
  We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs,
  Bitten into and returned to the box.

  Ogden Nash

  Chocolate, Encounters, Shapes

  Ogden Nash (1942). “Good intentions”, Little, Brown

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• The 'medical examination' to which abductees are said to be subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscient of the medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes no sense in a sophisticated or technical framework: any intelligent being equipped with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess would be in a position to achieve any of these alleged scientific objectives in a shorter time and with fewer risks.

  Jacques Vallee

  Intelligent, Risk, Encounters

  "Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact". Book by Jacques Vallee, 1990.

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• Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following year.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Years, Support, Bird

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Believe, Wish, Virtue

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• For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!

  Robert Browning

  Heaven, Doe, Treasure

  'Christmas Eve' (1850) l. 1311

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• Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer and our needs plainer.

  Stephanie Mills

  Erotic, Needs, Want

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.200, Island Press

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• The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.

  Albert Pike

  Writing, Echoes, Leaving

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• Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.

  John M. McHugh

  Military, America, People

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• When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

  Andy Rooney

  Education, School, Things In Life

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• Humanity's true purpose is not to become stronger physically, it's to become more intelligent-from armies, who increasingly fight with specialized units rather than regiments and tanks, to garage owners, who use a lot more than jacks to fix your engine. As intelligence prevails throughout humanity, maybe there'll be fewer wars and better cars.

  Georges St-Pierre

  War, Fighting, Army

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• I had fewer female clients. I don't know why. It was always the men who chose me. And the ones whose secrets I had to hold. I represented Sophia Loren. She was jailed in Caserta for 17 days.

  Giovanna Cau

  Men, Secret, Female

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Animal, Men, Talking

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.25, Lulu.com

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