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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
William Jennings Bryan

Heart, Speech, Eloquent

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!
David Bowie

Dad, Person, Thought

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
Joan Crawford

Love, Sex, Clear

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.
Toni Morrison

Black, Country, Become

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
Charles Caleb Colton

Person, Appreciate, Merit

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Franz Kafka

Start, Acceptable

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. Wells

Artist, Journalist

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sex, Woman, Talk

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
Steven Spielberg

Sunday, Twice, Direct

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Elizabeth I

Single, Married, Queen

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.
Cornel West

Opinion, Climate, Shapes

If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.
James Hetfield

Life, Music, Dead

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
Lord Acton

Evil, Democracy, Tyranny

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Life, Give, Afraid

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
Jacques Derrida

Angry, Someone, Understand

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.
David Bowie

Time, Lonely, Person

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
Nikita Khrushchev

Nature, Support, United

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
David Herbert Lawrence

Art, Mind, Moral

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
Hannah Arendt

Good, Freedom, May

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.
Donald Rumsfeld

Mistakes, Help, Try

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
Donald Rumsfeld

Money, Focus, Goal

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.
Donald Rumsfeld

Politics, Human, Addition

Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don't know. I don't think so. But if it happens, I'd rather get to play that, because there's nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I'd be happy staying away from that.
January Jones

Happy, Fun, Nothing

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
Jackson Pollock

Time, Feelings, Working

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.
King Solomon

Good, Name, Riches

I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.
Alanis Morissette

Human, Body, View

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
Lee Iacocca

Try, Worth, Deal

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.
Christopher Hitchens

Family, Home, Nice

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
David Hockney

Work, Good, Advice

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
Robert Orben

Wisdom, Sometimes, Feet

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