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I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
Karl Lagerfeld

Nothing, Person, Second

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan P. Smith

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
Stephen Sondheim

Hear, Surface, Neurotic

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.
Josh Radnor

Judge, Kindness, Job

What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.
Hugh Jackman

Work, Respect, Winning

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
Plautus

Criticism, Sincere, Compliment

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
Emile M. Cioran

Dying, Fame, Forgotten

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
Charles Baudelaire

Nature, Nothing, Ugly

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
Charles Baudelaire

Poetry, Fact, She

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
Helen Rowland

Time, Good, Woman

I got hooked on espresso when I visited Italy at 18, but these days I prefer a 'flat white.' It's like a small latte with less milk - they're popular in Australia.
Hugh Jackman

Small, Days, Less

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
Stanislaw Lem

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Charles de Gaulle

Politics, Country, Betray

Personally, I prefer the dark side.
Daniel Radcliffe

Dark, Side, Personally

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
Michael Caine

American, Quiet, Dirty

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
David Hume

Reason, Whole, Contrary

I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.
Eric Cantona

Win, Play, Rather

Many people love me, many people hate me - there's nobody in between. That's the way I prefer it.
Johnny Thunders

Love, Hate, Between

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Live, Place, Might

I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine.
Nicole Kidman

Beautiful, Rather, Body

I prefer living in color.
David Hockney

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
Karl Lagerfeld

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.
Sophia Bush

Good, Drunk, Rather

It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.
Helena Bonham Carter

Change, Nice, Move

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
Ang Lee

Writing, Director, Directing

I think I prefer 3D to 2D now.
Ang Lee

I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.
Anne Lamott

Time, Car, Short

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
A. N. Wilson

Teacher, Computer, Politician

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.
Emma Thompson

Work, Problem, Moral

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
Kwame Nkrumah

Danger, Servitude

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