I Quotes
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“I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments”
“I prefer to not be feeling like I'm having to be fake about things that are the most dear to me in terms of writing, which is something related to my own, personal writing. I mean, I've done tons and tons of fake writing.”
“I prefer to operate with an ethics of abundance. There is plenty of space for everyone, and plenty of room to grow in the ways that matter (not in the overconsumption of material resources, but in the sharing of ideas and creative endeavours). Sharing my learning may help others learn, which contributes to the kind of abundance I want for our community and the world. I am uninterested in growth or success that does not uplift others alongside myself.”
“I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.”
“I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.”
“I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for a disproportionate number of weeks to come. It's very healthy.”
Source: How Did You Get This Number
“I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.”
“I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.”
“I prefer to remain anomalous.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“I prefer to remain mysterious and have people MAKE their own judgment calls about me than to always have to EXPLAIN who I am and what I’m about.”
“I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.”
“I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?”
“I prefer to reserve comment till I see how we get on.”
“I prefer to sail in a bad ship with a good captain rather than sail in a good ship with a bad captain.”
“I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.”
“I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.”
“I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.”
“I prefer to see with closed eyes.”
“I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.”
“I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.”
“I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you.”
“I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.”
“I prefer to sit on the sidewalk and share a hotdog with a homeless person than sit at a fancy restaurant and have dinner with a billionaire.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“I prefer to sleep with deaf girls. Those crazy chicks never have a safe word.”
“I prefer to solve the world's problems. They never seem as complicated as my own.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact can limit me or decide for me what’s possible.”
Source: Chouette
“I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliché responses. Nor does it tell the full story.”
“I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable.”
“I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring.”
“I prefer to stay on the important issues facing the American people.”
“I prefer to subscribe to that whole, “everything happens for a reason” theory, mostly because the alternative is too disturbing to think about.”
Source: Watch Me
“I prefer to suffer than repent because I stand by my decision and capable enough top pay for it Or reap the beauty later.”
“I prefer to take actors and put them in real settings and real locations and real situations rather than create artificial locations that serve the characters. It's just much easier when you are walking down the street with your actors to do that in a real street that's still open with people on it, rather than to close it off and bring in extras.”
“I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.”
“I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.”
“I prefer to think of film making - you know, um, the sweat is supposed to be invisible. But a lot of sweat can go into making a film. But of course, if you enjoy doing it, you enjoy doing it.”
“I prefer to think of it as redistribution of matter.”
Source: The Secret History
“I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.”
“I prefer to think of photography as a never ending journey with infinite possibilities. I love to return to places to re photograph. Nothing is ever the same. The options are endless.”
“I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.”
“I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.”
Source: The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want
“I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.”
“I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.”
Source: Portraits and Observations
“I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.”
“I prefer to use 'The Medieval Scapini Tarot' deck produced by U.S. Games Systems Inc., Stamford, Connecticut. The cards are beautiful, captivating and of excellent quality, and I endorse them wholeheartedly.
I should add that I have no connection with U.S. Games Systems, and this is an unbiased endorsement. That having been said, if U.S. Games Systems were appreciative of my comments, and offered me many free packs of cards (or large sums of money) as a charming gesture of goodwill, I should be happy to accept such tokens without compromising my integrity in any way. They might like to bear in mind that in future editions of this book my endorsements may have 'evolved' in the direction of other card companies who are, perhaps, a little more generous in their appreciation of my valuable judgements.”
Source: The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading: A Comprehensive Guide to the Most Persuasive Psychological Manipulation Technique in the World
“I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.”
“I prefer to work alone – except in the bedroom. (Steele)”
“I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free. I am always suspicious of ideology. Instead, I respect men with ideas.”
“I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.”
“I prefer to work the old-fashioned way. I trie to do everything or most of his action sequences practically, because I feel that while added effects or the VFX process allows for flashier sequences, I feel that it lacks the energy we see in practical effects.”