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- Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.
- As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for…
- Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as…
- Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.
- It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.
- Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
- I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.
- Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.
- I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib…
- As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit…
- I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are…
- I didn't cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for me and, at the risk…
- Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can drop half a dozen brats…
- Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause
- Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do…
- I am not one of those fat birds who feels miserable because models are thin. Frankly, I feel more insulted by the idea that unless…
- People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle