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You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced with the artist, especially because we’ve been educated to think that the artist...

—Amanda Palmer

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When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

—Asghar Farhadi

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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

—Aristotle

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This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly ‘parallel’ plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don’t tell.

—Graham Nelson

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Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get...

—Evan Parker

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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

—Dag Hammarskjöld

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There is no community service in ‘Seinfeld.’ But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

—Jason Alexander

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Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring...

—Margaret Halsey

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When not working, I use a lot of treatments; from ancient casero – honey, avocado, stuff like that – other times, I buy ones you leave on for a few minutes. I don’t blow dry...

—Kate del

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I admire any woman who does stand-up, but frankly I’d rather pull out my own eyelids.

—Katherine Parkinson

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The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument – can you make a difference?

—Johann Lamont

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If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.

—Mohsin Hamid

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For years, I’ve felt like the loneliest brother on the planet. I don’t play basketball, I can’t dance, and I’d rather listen to Harry Nilsson than hip hop.

—Shawn Amos

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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

—T. D.

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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

—Susan B. Anthony

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I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it’s more interesting to have an album – or, indeed, an individual song – which has variety rather than homogeneity.

—Peter Hammill

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I’ve been on stage since I was 7. That’s where I’d rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn’t mean you are a bunch of things. I can...

—Bebe Neuwirth

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I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

—Bao Dai

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I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it’s slightly fictional.

—Clive Anderson

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I’d much rather dress like a 5 year old than a 21 year old. I’d much rather wear a puffy sleeved shirt than some low-cut top.

—Elle Fanning

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I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

—Corazon Aquino

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Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply...

—Deborah Tannen

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If you ask me what I’d rather be doing, well, I’d rather be home in California, watching TV, polishing my tools and working around the ranch.

—Dick Dale

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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

—John Henry Newman

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I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

—Leon Jaworski

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I’d rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

—Kevyn Aucoin

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Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It brought people from different lands together, co-operating rather than competing...

—Julian Baggini

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I’d rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

—Rafael Nadal

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My instruction to my parents is that I would rather they enjoy their retirement than leave me anything when they go. I am much happier watching them enjoying life.

—Richard C.

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The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech – the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of… the threat of an over powerful...

—William Hague

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The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies – rather than as your civic duty – is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

—Tom G.

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We must see what in the Israeli identity – in the Israeli – we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

—A.B. Yehoshua

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I’d rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don’t have it. I make other people’s problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

—Brenda Fassie

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I think I’m better at live shows than I used to be because I’m way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I’ll...

—Fiona Apple

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I’d rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

—Fred Allen

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Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.

—Chimamanda Ngozi

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My family thought it was insanity for me to go into the theater rather than to get an education.

—Clarice Taylor

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My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

—Jacob K.

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Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it’s happening.

—Kate Adie

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I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

—Joan of

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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the...

—Mahmoud Abbas

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I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

—Lyman Abbott

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To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

—Thomas Paine

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I’d rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. With my children, I’m just ‘Mom.’ At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title,...

—Queen Rania

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I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they’d rather...

—Tony Abbott

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I’d rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

—Vanessa Paradis

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It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.

—Ahmed Yassin

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I would rather die than see my face in a car advertisement.

—Azzedine Alaia

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Most people would rather give than get affection.

—Aristotle

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Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn’t show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said ‘hEllO woRlD’....

—Graham Nelson

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