"We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that."
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"When I was on set I tried not to bug Steven Soderbergh too much. "Why did you put the camera there?" But he was very open to my questions and definitely being on his set was really thrilling because he's such a master."
"Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire."
"There are too many games now where there's too much structure and not enough of the chaos."
"I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell."
"Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences."
"For the most sensitive among us the noise can be too much."
"The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me."
"I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was."
"Too much virtue can be criminal."
"Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing."
"Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me."
"I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking."
"She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind."
"We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative."
"No one ever lost his job by listening too much."
"The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one."
"Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many."
"If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition."
"Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of."