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I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.
Giorgio Armani

Listen, Express, Liked

Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it.
Ron Perlman

Nice, Pay, Paid

Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.
Chuck Mangione

Music, Working, Listen

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.
Charles Hodge

Power, Others, Act

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
Phaedrus

Liberty, King, Forfeit

I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.
Christopher Meloni

Work, Best, Live

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
Anthony Trollope

Nature, Nothing, Write

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
Anthony Trollope

Power, Wisdom, May

I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.
Roberta Williams

Woman, Game, Thought

Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.
Theresa May

Great, Stress, Feeling

Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.
Liz Phair

Success, Good, Again

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
Michael Morpurgo

Remember, Young, Short

When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.
Jeffrey Kluger

Good, Past, Culture

I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement.
Cynthia Nixon

Public, Statement

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.
Naveen Jain

Time, Great, Focus

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
Jack London

Life, Short, Song

I've always thought Prince Charming in 'Cinderella' was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch.
Jude Law

Boring, Thought, Role

I wanted to be a serious actress rather than a pretty face.
Jane Seymour

Pretty, Serious, Wanted

I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own personal style is rather than feeling dictated to by shops.
Sophie Ellis Bextor

Time, Feeling, Find

I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.
Travis Barker

Food, Diet, Changed

I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.
Sammy Hagar

Truth, Judge, Saying

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
Mary Wesley

Women, Men, Courage

I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.
Jack Nicklaus

Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.
Carnie Wilson

Life, Able, Accept

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
Vanessa Paradis

Good, Someone, Else

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
Vanessa Paradis

Famous, Girl, Through

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.
Michael Haneke

Reality, Real, Try

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.
Michael Haneke

Someone, Give, Artist

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.
Joyce Carol Oates

Writing, Wonderful, Calm

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
Ben Kingsley

Actor, Voice, Charity

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