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I am not a very rough and tough kind of a girl, rather a little sensitive. I believe in unicorns, dreams and dolls.
I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?
Our great national drama was a westward expansion that conquered a native population rather than coexisting with it.
Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
Location is everything, I'd rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star hotel in Frankfurt.
I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.
I am more of an introvert person who is a little shy to get into random chat. I would rather observe people silently.
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.
Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them.
Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase... Rather, it's displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.
I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
Our democracy cannot be left in the hands of those who would rather watch or participate in a train wreck than stop it.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
I've always been someone who believes in being real and embraced my imperfections with pride rather than covering it up.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
You almost have no choice but to continue to innovate because if you don't, you are likely to atrophy rather than expand.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
I am looking for strong characters rather than being just a pretty girl. Actresses can do so much more than looking good.
I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
We've gotten quite creative with our use of explosives... It's almost like an art form, rather than just blowing crap up.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.
I'd rather make all my secrets public than have an image based on gossip. I'd rather put it out there myself and control it.
The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
Usually when people see me, they see me as more of the soft-spoken one rather than being the witty, smart-tongued character.
The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
In 'Notting Hill,' I was part of a whole plot line over six scenes that was completely taken out. That was rather depressing.
I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.