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I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.
Jock Sturges

Art, Talk, Making

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.
Charles Schumer

Respect, Judge, Someone

I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
Boy George

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.
Ella Maillart

Time, Home, Long

Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.
Sharon Stone

School, Before, Old

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
Madeleine L'Engle

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.
Jane Campion

Music, Knowledge, Bad

I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.
Ron Perlman

Work, Best, Business

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

Nice, Pay, Paid

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
Joseph Brodsky

Life, Poetry, Production

I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.
Vince Cable

Positive, Confidence, Real

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
Thomas Hood

Travel, Others, Minds

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

Public, Statement

During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.
Ayelet Waldman

Marriage, Work, Family

Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.
Ayelet Waldman

Success, Time, Mother

I'd rather let the music speak for itself.
Serj Tankian

I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.
Andrew Weil

Health, Diet, Care

Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me picking tayberries, 'deadheading' peppermint, or succession-planting shallots. There is almost nothing, really, that I would rather do.
Andrew Weil

Time, Nothing, Find

Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.
Andrew Weil

Life, Work, Busy

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.
Mike Huckabee

Politics, Money, Become

I'm for all the actor's struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun.
Ginnifer Goodwin

Fun, Struggle, Actor

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
Robertson Davies

Country, Between, Desire

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.
Thom Yorke

Music, Political, Fighting

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

My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He's great. As he brought up me and my brothers and sisters, he ingrained in us that your appearance is not your responsibility, other than that you should not be a slob.
Christopher Reeve

Great, Father, Physical

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'm not really a political animal but I am rather fascinated by the meltdown of England and America. In the end, it seems as if America might come out of it, but I'm not sure if England is ever going to recover.
Rupert Everett

End, Political, America

'So You Think You Can Dance' comes on as a high-minded leap up the evolutionary ladder from other reality shows - on this one, you're supposed to learn something, and the guest judges are fellow dance professionals rather than actual celebrities.
Rob Sheffield

Reality, Dance, Learn

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