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The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

- François Truffaut

If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world

- Robert Coleman

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

- Leon Trotsky

The budget never looks proportional until the end of the year.

- Tim Jones

I`m suggesting there be a proportional fee tied to the use of the system.

- Jim May
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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

- Oriana Fallaci

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

- Michael Korda

It`s not a tax. It`s a utility. It is a fee proportional to their usage. If the utility is doing the job right, (taxpayers) should pay less.

- Eric Thompson

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

- Alan McGlade

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.

- Amanda Bradley

(Date rape is a major alcohol-related problem that schools don`t advertise and U.S. News & World Report doesn`t mention in its annual college issue. But administrators and counselors deal with it every year. The University of Colorado advised female students,) When you`re drunk, you`ll have sex with someone you wouldn`t have lunch with, so bring a condom. ... The quality of men`s manners seems to be directly proportional to how drunk I am.

- Asaf Shariv

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

- Douglas Engelbart