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There are two types of paparazzi. The ones who hide who get you with your mouth hanging wide open or jumping up and down like an idiot on the street. I much prefer them to the ones who come out and follow you.
Dianna Agron
Down
,
Two
,
Idiot
As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.
Greg Walden
Black
,
Green
,
Forests
I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.
Al Lewis
Silent
,
Audience
,
Radio
I prefer a cluttered workspace.
Julianna Baggott
Cluttered
We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.
John Shelton Reed
Music
,
Country
,
Support
I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.
Andy Summers
Simple
,
Someone
,
Else
In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.
Alex Ferguson
Real
,
Football
,
Short
I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.
Conrad Veidt
Used
,
Order
,
Precision
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.
Asghar Farhadi
Someone
,
Mean
,
Done
I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.
Hattie McDaniel
Forget
,
Enough
,
Again
I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work.
Gil Scott-Heron
Music
,
Work
,
Good
I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.
Michael Eisner
Basketball
,
Team
,
Toward
On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
Bebe Neuwirth
Silence
,
Gym
,
Rare
I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.
Rick Allen
Character
,
Old
,
Rather
I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.
Meshell Ndegeocello
Love
,
Children
,
Around
I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.
Anton Yelchin
Movies
,
Mind
,
Heart
My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.
Kimbra
Time
,
Emotional
,
Someone
My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
Randy Newman
Music
,
Often
,
Guilty
There are countries that prefer to think that they're buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don't think that's the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups.
Jose Maria Aznar
Others
,
Act
,
Comfort
I prefer to play the bad guy - it gives you more freedom as an actor.
Alex Pettyfer
Freedom
,
Bad
,
Play
But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.
Andy Richter
Read
,
Stuff
,
Fiction
I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.
Nobuo Uematsu
Music
,
Game
,
Fans
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
Philip Roth
Life
,
Live
,
Cannot
I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.
Cynthia McKinney
Black
,
Seen
,
Heard
But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.
H. G. Bissinger
Football
,
Learn
,
Rather
I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
Patricia Highsmith
Movies
,
Live
,
Country
I'm just as sick as the others, although I prefer to do my sickness in private.
Mick Mars
Others
,
Sick
,
Sickness
I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
Patrick Duffy
Life
,
Live
,
Big
It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.
Terry Southern
Music
,
Everything
,
Often
It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term.
Peter L. Berger
True
,
Find
,
Seems
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