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A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a… — Graham Coxon
I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent. — Susan Rice
My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. — Stockard Channing
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things… — E E Cummings
Love is beyond time or rather love is both time and space but all focused on one single constantly evolving point-the Aleph. — Paulo Coelho
What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible… — Dashiell Hammett
Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain… — Nelson Mandela
Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do.… — Fernando Pessoa
One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather… — Georges Braque
I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the… — Tori Amos
If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just… — Vijay Singh
Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision. — Giorgio Agamben
Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect… — Robert Cialdini
Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time — Tim Harford
Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know—that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating… — Daniel Gilbert
Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing… — Italo Calvino
I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity. — Alexander the Great
I loved the illusion, the conviction, the desire - whatever you want to call it - that the words were agents rather than extensions of… — Eavan Boland
I cannot wait to go get my fried butter on a stick, and fried cheesecake on a stick and...Twinkies, especially in honor of those who… — Sarah Palin
I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a… — Andrew Motion
I'd rather goto Hell than be in Purgatory — Gerard Way
I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a… — Jim Butcher
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas… — Sergei Eisenstein
Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process. — Kurt Lewin

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