Prefer Quotes
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When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming to behold, that on her exclaiming, "What beautiful stars and what a glorious night!" the Secretary said "Yes," but seemed to prefer to see the night and the stars in the light of her lovely little countenance, to looking out of window.
Charles Dickens
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They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.
Nikita Khrushchev
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I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.
Eliot Paulina Sumner
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I prefer law to war under all circumstances.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I tend to use really basic creams, and I like to put an oil on, like an emu oil from Australia. It's from the emu, and it's really nourishing. I prefer an oil to a cream.
Cate Blanchett
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Read the books which they the ancients have written, read those which you prefer, they will speak to you and you will speak to them.
Bernardino of Siena
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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
Billy Joel
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I definitely prefer to be in a band. There's too many solo people, and bands are suffering. There's too many great bands that have split up because somebody's got an ego, and then he goes solo.
Liam Gallagher Oasis
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I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.
Cate Blanchett
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I prefer old-world wines like Lafite Rothschild and Margaux.
Ernie Els
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Sophocles
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
Moliere
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
Alexandre Dumas
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You always prefer to be in on more plays
Charles Tillman
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling
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I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.
Sean Penn
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The words you've bandied are sufficient; 'Tis deeds that I prefer to see.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.
Susan Olsen
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
Will Durant
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I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.
Eloisa James
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My own preferred fitness regime is to use my bicycle.
Paul Hollywood
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I prefer to work alone and do everything alone, even today.
Ray Harryhausen
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To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.
Confucius
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
J. R. R. Tolkien