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“I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what you call someone when you're worried that using a long word like 'intellectual' may have too many syllables. It's not something that people who have serious, important things to say call other people.”
“I like 'Rocky Horror.'”
“I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.”
“I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.”
“I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.”
“I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.”
“I like 'Unsung' but I'd rather have a 'Behind the Music' while I'm still breathing.”
“I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.”
“I like 'Zorro.' I like people you can believe that don't have those stupid powers. That is the beauty of Zorro. He's just a guy working for the people, to save the people.”
“I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating a character in a fantastical situation, like Dr. Frankenstein, like Leo Bloom, a little caterpillar who blossoms into a butterfly. I love that.”
“I like - not so much jewelry and that - but jackets, clothes, games as well.”
“I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen.”
“I like ... what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas.”
“I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.”
“I like [ Rick] Santorum personally and respect him, but you wouldn't say that he was really that strong of an opponent. At the end of the day it wasn't like [Ronald] Reagan running against [George] Bush, or [George W.] Bush against [John] McCain, even. It's sort of surprising that Romney had as much trouble as he did, and I think it shows a weakness in appeal to those voters.”
“I like [Barak] Obama. I like him. So how far does rationality help to persuade anybody? You know, I'm not so sure.”
“I like [Count] Olaf's wardrobe, because the whole thing seems like it should be a period piece in many ways, and yet the date is non-specific. So I would wear cloaks and jackets, but also turtlenecks. I was a little beatnik, and kind of hipster in that way.”
“I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.”
“I like [John Cardinal O'Connor] a lot. He - I started a - to know him - when I asked William Shawn at The New Yorker, `Sh - can I do a profile of Cardinal O'Connor?' He said, `All right. Find out what he's like.' So I went to his office, and I heard somebody - and it turned out to be O'Connor - yelling outside, and I've never heard him since raise his voice.”
“I like [that] there's a certain inherent drama to those jobs that is exciting to tell stories about and it's still real life. I'm a little less interested in the current fad of being obsessed with superheroes and things that are so out of the box.”
“I like a basic uniform for guys. Steve Jobs is my fashion icon, because he wears the same outfit every day. If you always wear the same thing, you make a statement. Then put a bow tie on and really stand out.”
“I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.”
“I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.”
Source: South Riding
“I like a bit of eye candy like anyone but to have it solely about the eye candy and have it fall into a category so rigidly as well is wrong.”
“I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.”
“I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.”
“I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.”
“I like a boyish quality in a man, somebody who is still adventurous. But I have no rules. I do not care - within reason - about your chronological age. I care whether you have passion in your life.”
“I like a brother that cuts to the chase.”
“I like a calm life where nobody bothers me.”
“I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.”
“I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.”
“I like a challenge.
But she made it abundantly clean on what she wishes us to be: competition.
Enemies.
And more importantly, why isn't that what I want as well?”
“I like a challenge. I always have.”
“I like a challenge. I need to feel passionate about something. If I'm not passionate about it, I can't stand it. It has to feel real. DJ'ing, touring, charity work - anything.”
“I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.”
“I like a colorful sock. I'm a sock man.”
“I like a comedian who supplies his own laugh track. That's how I know he just told a joke.”
Source: Me and memes and memories
“I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.”
“I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.”
“I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.”
“I like a director that encourages me to be playful. I don't really like being restricted or controlled by a director.”
“I like a director who is very observant and is watching what I'm doing and noticing what I'm doing, but is giving me time to figure it out. They don't jump right in and give you a note before you've had time to really search on your own with how to do a scene.”
“I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.”
“I like a dramatic eye and a bold lip.”
“I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out.”
“I like a fine wine. Who can beat that? I don't think it helps writing; I think it's a hinderance. It helps numb you.”
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Source: becoming.
“I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)