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Lunch
Like
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
- A. A. Milne
Green
Weeks
It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
- A. N. Wilson
Myself
Like
I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.
- Aaron Sorkin
Plays
Players
I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
- Abe Lemons
Thought
Unnerving
Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to him is unnerving. I'd rather do my films than live in the fear of living up to his standards.
- Abhishek Bachchan
Broken
Feel
If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
- Abraham Cahan
Inspirational
Than
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Deep
Rap
As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.
- Action Bronson
Learn
Like
I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.
- Ada Lovelace
Analytical
Very
Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.
- Ada Lovelace
Work
Pay
Energy and bitcoin work really well together because you can pay out in micro-transaction units. As the energy gets used, they pay out, and it's by the kilowatt rather than by the month.
- Adam Draper
Supportive
Our
The opposite of an underminer is a supporter. When colleagues are supportive, they go out of their way to be givers rather than takers, working to enhance our productivity, make us look good, share ideas, and provide timely help.
- Adam Grant
Cut
Billionaires
Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.
- Adam McKay
World
Diary
I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world.
- Adam Schlesinger
Going
Away
If I'm going to be away from my family, I'd rather it be working with my friends.
- Adam Scott
Always
Other
I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.
- Adam West
Happy
Lunch
I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
- Adele
Always
Been
The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.
- Adele
Other
Mum
In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
- Adele
Thought
Poorly
I myself don't have Netflix. And recently, I was staying at a friend's place who did, and I was feeling rather poorly one morning, and I sat down and watched the entire series of 'The Killing,' the American version of 'The Killing' in one day. I just got hooked. I thought, 'Wow, I've never done this before.'
- Aden Young
Some
Deliver
The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off - I'd rather stay in character.
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Here
Public
Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?
- Adolph Zukor
CEO
Use
CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.
- Adora Svitak
Flag
Symbol
Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.
- Adrian Cronauer
Tell
Invent
You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.
- Adrian Grenier
Work
Lot
A lot of my fears come out in my work rather than life.
- Adrian Tomine
Would
Knowledgeable
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
- Aeschylus
Living
Than
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
- Aeschylus
Education
Egypt
I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.
- Ahmed Zewail
Salvation
Willing
Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our 'accepting' and 'willing' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Love
Strength
Spend the first six to 12 months building a great product or service that people love, rather than chasing investors. When the time comes to engage investors, you will be meeting them from a position of strength. This makes all the difference.
- Aileen Lee
Strength
Concept
The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.
- Aisha Tyler
Invest
Here
I always felt like if you get to a point where you've got enough money to invest in something real, you gotta invest in anything that's related to a natural resource because that's gonna be here forever - so you might as well invest in something that's gonna be here, rather than invest in something that's gonna wear out.
- Akon
Some
Part
I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.
- Al Franken
Book
Tell
You know what? I feel my book is kind of pointless. I didn't want to do a book, but rather than tell the same old stories over and over when my wife Angie and I are out at parties, I could just hand out a bunch of books, and she won't have to hear them ever again.
- Al Jourgensen
Kind
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
- Al Sharpton
About
No Sense
What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that life is fundamentally incomplete rather than accidentally incomplete.
- Alain de Botton
Love
Fiction
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
- Alain de Botton
Small
Bothers
What bothers me is that there is so much emphasis on food, rather than gathering and meeting - so that there is all this effort in creating the right food, whereas the food is only a small part of whether the encounter is successful or not.
- Alain de Botton
Education
Within
Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
- Alan Arkin
Father
Hands
We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.
- Alan Bennett
Say
Minister
This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.
- Alan Hovhaness
Father
Alan
I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day.
- Alan Ladd
Giving Up
Certainly
Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.
- Alan Moore
Been
Frank
There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.
- Alan Moore
Mind
Putting
I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.
- Alan Moore
Kind
Very
I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
- Alan Rickman
Other
Another
Discovering that our solar system has many more planets than we ever expected, and that most of them are ice dwarfs rather than like Earth and the other rocky terrestrials, is just another step in the revolution in viewpoint that removed the Earth from the center of the physical universe and makes Earth all the more special.
- Alan Stern
Play
More
I'd much rather play Batman's cousin than Batman. That's more of my speed.
- Alan Tudyk
Though
Had
I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don't accept it with much enthusiasm either awake or in the dreams.
- Alan Turing
May
Which
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
- Alan Turing
Mind
Fact
At the end of the day, I know that I would rather be alone and occasionally lonely and unhappy than in a miserable marriage and lonely and unhappy all the time. I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.
- Alana Stewart
Shame
Embrace
In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.
- Alanis Morissette
See
Ornament
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
- Alanis Morissette
Love
About
I'd rather talk to people about their personal spiritual practices or what they believe love is. I'm born to do that. Could I enter into the political realm and dive into that? Sure, but I don't think I would want to do that.
- Alanis Morissette
Servant
Would
I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
- Alben W. Barkley
Worrying
Bounce
People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong.
- Albert Bandura
Success
Try
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Success
Strive
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
- Albert Einstein
Need
Which
The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
City
Dropped
Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27.
- Alberto Salazar
Boredom
Symbol
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
- Aldous Huxley
Go
Choke
There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
- Alec Baldwin
Colour
Terms
I usually talk about clothes in terms of a story rather than a colour.
- Alessandro Michele
Possible
Turn
It's not that I don't care how I look, but I'd rather turn the attention to the music as much as possible.
- Alessia Cara
United
About
When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if I could do a film about wealth instead. I tend to make films about perpetrators, rather than victims.
- Alex Gibney
Eat
Than
I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
- Alex Kapranos
Change
Need
To force a change, sometimes you need to stand up. You know what you're worth - rather than what your employer is paying you.
- Alex Morgan
Cows
Became
The late Christopher Hitchens had the professional contrarian's fixation on attacking sacred cows, and rather soon after his cancer diagnosis, he became one himself.
- Alex Pareene
Through
Very
Wen wu contradicts the very American notion of John Wayne being the ideal of manhood. In the wen wu way of thinking, it's much more important to restrain rather than exert yourself through brute power.
- Alex Tizon
Used
Terrifying
When I used to work in television, a tip was rather than looking down the barrel of the camera and imagine people watching, which is terrifying, imagine your most discerning friend observing you, and imagine you're just talking to them.
- Alexa Chung
The Most Important
Seeing what you want from life from the inside out, rather than from the outside in, is the most important thing.
- Alexa Hirschfeld
Been
Large
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.
- Alexander Calder
Feel
Developments
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Want
Fact
I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Most
Reasonable
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
- Alexander Hamilton
Enjoy
Certainly
Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.
- Alexander McCall Smith
Delta
Towards
The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.
- Alexander McCall Smith
Behind
Very
Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.
- Alexander Payne
Excel
Extent
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
- Alexander the Great
Own
My Own
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
- Alexander the Great
Give
Agency
I'm really interested in passivity as a type of action - sort of allowing the situation to change you, choosing to give in being an act of agency rather than an act of submission.
- Alexandra Kleeman
I Think
Vague
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
Jazz
Considered
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.
- Alexis Korner
Emotional
Been
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.
- Alexis Korner
College
Tech
Most redditors are at least college educated. A number of them have post- or, rather, graduate degrees. A number of them are in the IT tech world.
- Alexis Ohanian
Work
Work Hard
I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.
- Alfie Allen
Play
See
I rather go to see a good play than be in one.
- Alfre Woodard
Learning
Grateful
I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.
- Ali MacGraw
Woman
Medical
When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus.
- Alice Dreger
Color
Magic
The funny thing is, when I ask people with dark skin if they would change their color, they tell me no, and when I ask women if they would rather be men, they tell me no, and I get the same response when I ask people with unusual anatomies if they would take a magic pill to erase their unusual features.
- Alice Dreger
Achievement
Absence
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
- Alice Koller
Very
Rhythms
I don't understand why people don't use improvisation, especially in comedy films, but also, for me, you get more naturalism, and that's why I like the naturalistic performances and strange rhythms and the way that people genuinely interact captured rather than sort of very mannered performances.
- Alice Lowe
Sometimes
Feel
Publishing a short story can sometimes feel like shouting into the dark... your words come out, and then nothing... but I don't think that's why I tend to write novels rather than stories.
- Alice McDermott
I Think
Larger
I think place and time for me is often a matter of convenience, something I can use to another end rather than something I'm trying to define because it's somehow fascinating to me in itself. It's more what the place can do for the larger goals I have for the work.
- Alice McDermott
I Think
Some
Some readers sort of suspect that you have another book that you didn't publish that has even more information in it. I think that readers sort of want to be taught something. They have this idea that there's a takeaway from a novel rather than just the being there, which I think is the great, great pleasure of reading.
- Alice McDermott
Concerned
Sentences
I guess I cringe when the discussion leads to, rather than books and sentences and characters and the stuff that writers are supposed to be concerned with, how to have an online presence and how many followers you have on Twitter. That stuff always makes me uncomfortable.
- Alice McDermott
Handbags
Private
I've always loved clothes, especially handbags and shoes. I'd rather save my money on clothing and wear crap, but have the handbags and shoes. I used to buy a Ferragamo or Louis Vuitton bag every job that I got. Now I have a child, and we pay for private school, so I've had to scale back!
- Alicia Coppola
Handbags
Always
I've always loved clothes, especially handbags and shoes. I'd rather save my money on clothing and wear crap, but have the handbags and shoes.
- Alicia Coppola
Liar
Than
I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.
- Alicia Keys
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