Prefer Quotes
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I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.
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Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
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I prefer nothing, unless it is true.
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If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.
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Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.
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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.
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I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
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I'm self-conscious in photo shoots. I much prefer to do interviews and talk about the work.
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Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.
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I like girls, but I prefer having a girlfriend. I like having someone I can spoil.
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The satisfactions of agreement are immediate as sugar - a melting of the granular, a syrup that lingers, shared not singular. Many prefer it.
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I remember when I got the part in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jane Russell - she was the brunette in it and I was the blonde. She got $200,000 for it, and I got my $500 a week, but that to me was, you know, considerable. She, by the way, was quite wonderful to me. The only thing was I couldn't get a dressing room. Finally, I really got to this kind of level and I said, "Look, after all, I am the blonde, and it is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes!" Because still they always kept saying, "Remember, you're not a star." I said, "Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!
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I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.
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There was a Solina string synth at the studio - we couldn’t afford real strings but I prefer fake ones anyway.
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I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.
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And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.
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I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.
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I prefer to date younger girls to be more protective.
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I prefer rock music—my favorites are R.E.M. and Matthew Sweet—but I think that if Dr. Buckley played Matthew Sweet, some of her patients would not like it. Matthew Sweet has a song called “Sick of Myself,” and I am pretty sure that is exactly the wrong song name for a therapist’s waiting room.
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I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of hotels.
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I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
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Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.
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I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.
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I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
