Prefer Quotes
1738 Prefer quotes by 1359 unique authors
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I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
— Ziggy Marley
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What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong,…
— Dylan Moran
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I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.
— Naima Adedapo
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I would always prefer radio or working behind the scenes where I don't have to be seen. I don't like how appearance oriented TV is…
— Susan Olsen
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I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll just get it and put it away…
— Julian Casablancas
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I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with…
— Robertson Davies
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I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.
— Amy Sedaris
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Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until…
— Frank Herbert
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A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those…
— Gore Vidal
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As long term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. [...] Personally I prefer…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Peace of mind just can't be bought. Trust me: Even if your conscience doesn't stop you from playing dirty to get what you want, once…
— Patti LaBelle
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It is not to save capitalism that we fight in Russia … It is for a revolution of our own. … If Europe were to…
— Leon Degrelle
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I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
— Francois Truffaut
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Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.
— Learned Hand
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I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to…
— Leo Buscaglia
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What is the one thing that 43% of men prefer over sex? Bacon!
— Jon Taffer
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Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.
— Marcel Proust
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Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought…
— Mark Twain
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We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things…
— Bill Gates
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Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers…
— Gore Vidal
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We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has…
— Clifton Fadiman
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Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and…
— Nick Gordon
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