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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
Clarence Darrow

Friend, Working

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes

Truth, Against, Hurts

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
Chinua Achebe

Create, Stories

A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.
Suze Orman

Courage, Wise, Woman

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
Mary Quant

Money, Fun, Blond

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.
David Attenborough

Care, Two, Whole

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

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.
Dave Brubeck

Great, Understand, Able

I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.
Mariah Carey

Happen, Pig, Duet

In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
Adele

Family, Time, Down

Know people for who they are rather than for what they are.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
Davy Crockett

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.
Colin Firth

Work, Good, Thought

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

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
Democritus

True, Cause, Gain

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.
Mark Knopfler

Change, Freedom, Reality

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
Manuel Puig

Short, Problems, Personal

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Philosophy, Means, Whoever

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
Natalie Portman

Smart, Care, Career

I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.
Larry David

Find, Quiet, Shout

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
Andrew Lang

Support, Statistics, Drunken

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

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
Jack Nicholson

Fear, Person, Public

We inhabit a language rather than a country.
Emile M. Cioran

Country, Language, Inhabit

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Perhaps, Flexible, Adaptable

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Charles Lindbergh

Choose, Realized, Birds

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
David Hockney

Mind, Playing, Ahead

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
Thomas Hardy

Beautiful, Woman, After

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
Brian Eno

Picture, Tv, Narrative

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
Dean Koontz

Give, Sometimes, Books

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