In west London where I live, white people are a minority. In the area I am in, which is the borough of Brent, whites are less than 50%.
As I've got older, I've got slightly more fussy. You've got less time; you need to use it wisely.
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
We're all shocked by new ideas, and we're less shocked when we hear them again. And less shocked when we hear them a third time.
To ask a country with 750 million people living on less than a dollar a day to optimize their development for the environment as opposed to getting food in the mouths of these people and giving them a decent lifestyle, that's just a little bit too much to ask.
I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.
I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.
And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
A less healthy America is not going to be as productive.
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.
America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.
It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.
I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.
The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects.
There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.
If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.
Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were.
I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.
So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.
The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama's health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.
I've learned from my pets that it's okay to sit around, and people don't love you any less if you sit around all the time. In fact they might love you more, 'cos they always know where you're always going to be: you're always going to be laying in bed.
The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.
My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out.
