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Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
Aeschylus

Living, Dead, Mourn

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.
Johnny Rotten

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.
Alexander the Great

Knowledge, Others, Excellent

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Felt, York, Paint

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.
Bryant H. McGill

Often, Expect, Reputation

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

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

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Seeing, Smoke

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.
Marian Wright Edelman

Time, Money, Help

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
John Cleese

God, Powerful, Father

I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.
Hedy Lamarr

Else, Hair, Face

The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.
Kathy Ireland

Life, Work, Design

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
Mick Jagger

Mother, She, Unhappy

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.
Christopher Hitchens

Boring, Problems, American

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

I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Done, Else, Anyone

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
Bryant H. McGill

Read, Curiosity, Satisfy

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
Thornton Wilder

Time, Eye, Appearance

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte

Love, Friendship, Friends

I'd rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character.
Tom Felton

Character, Someone, Different

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Scientist, Scientists

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.
Heidi Klum

Age, Fake, Mirror

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
Alanis Morissette

Body, Instrument, Ornament

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

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
J. D. Salinger

God, Human, Old

I would rather be with my kids than anybody else.
Louis C. K.

Else, Kids, Anybody

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

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
Jean de La Fontaine

Die, Motto, Suffer

I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
Billy Wilder

Sleep, Another, Hotel

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