Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Reducing military presence has never in history won a war.
Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.
Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever
Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.
Love is reducing the universe to one being.
If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.
Since I've started working on my autobiography, I'm going to slow down work. I've decided to reduce my workload by not signing every film that comes my way.
Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.
What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.
It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].
Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.
Whereas in a memory you edit things out and sort of restructure the things to seem a little bit more heroic, or to focus on particular aspects that magnify or reduce certain things.
I hope I'm able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I'm reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That's what I'd like to do.
It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.
I made a point of eating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chef's salad and grapefruit juice because they were trying to reduce. Almost everybody I met in New York was trying to reduce.
