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Tag Name "Preferred" (245)

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Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.
William Shakespeare
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Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.
Edward M. Lerner
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A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.
Bradley Denton
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I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.
Carrie Mae Weems
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It had a language. It's a very emotional language that only exists in India, that part of [inaudible] so we wanted to use that. I had two versions - one with my voice and one with the girl's voice. But he preferred the girl's voice and he preferred my voice with an [inaudible].
A. R. Rahman
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since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
Charles Bukowski
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We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.
Albert Einstein
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I have preferred chloroform to cancer
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.
Aleksandar Hemon
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I like a girl with a substantial bottom,' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.
Christopher Moore
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I've always preferred food be on the blander side.
Alexandra Paul
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... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.
D. H. Lawrence
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
Allan Bloom
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The method preferred by most balding men for making themselves look silly is called the comb over.
Dave Barry
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HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.
Ambrose Bierce
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I'm the one usually wearing the dress, which is what I would've preferred, but they wouldn't let me. It's been 15 years since I did that and my ass isn't as good as it used to be.
David Duchovny
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My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one
Amy Plum
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I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly
David Levithan
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I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.
Andrew Eldritch
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It is interesting that the black BMW is the preferred car of so many assholes.
Demetri Martin
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I loved being on the other side of the camera and interacting with the crew. When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.
Angelina Jolie
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Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.
Denis Healey
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The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose.
Ann Brashares
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I preferred that option, where my camera (and by proxy, me) could look them straight in the eye. The way they reacted to me was always interesting. Sometimes hard young men would reveal vulnerability and a softer side. In the case of teenage girls, I often got a fascinating glimpse of the woman inside.
Derek Ridgers
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