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I always preferred Harpo to Groucho Marx.
— Lee Evans
If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.
— Ronaldinho
The Red Cross irritated Ugwu; the least they could do was ask Biafrans their preferred foods rather than sending so much bland flour.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I preferred the simplest vocabulary.
— Louise Gluck
There wasn't anything simple about them, and I preferred that, and trusted it. My life wasn't simple either.
— Paula McLain
I like a girl with a substantial bottom,' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.
— Christopher Moore
Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.
— Linda Ronstadt
Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.
— Edward M. Lerner
The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.
— Guy Gavriel Kay
The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
— Victor Hugo
Preferred entering through the front.
— David Baldacci
There was something special about sunrise. I just preferred to experience it behind closed eyelids.
— Anne Zoelle
Hide' isn't a word we like to use," Cassaway said. "'Perform alternative tasks' is the preferred term.
— John Scalzi
I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf
— Tug McGraw
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
— Democritus
Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.
— Ronald Reagan
I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.
— Dominic Cooper
Some friends of mine got me a sweater for my birthday. I'd have preferred a moaner or a screamer, but the sweater was OK.
— Steven Wright
I welcomed the circling sharks but they avoided me as if knowing I preferred their teeth to the chains around my neck my waist my ankles
— Toni Morrison
[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.
— Carl Sagan
Winter teetered on the verge of succumbing to the returning sun, but today the breeze still preferred the touch of snowflakes
— Rue
[Ransom] preferred to work as a volunteer rather than in admitted slavery: and he liked his cooking a good deal more than that of his companions.
— C.S. Lewis
He said he preferred to feel the earth sing through his feet, and that shoes stopped you from hearing the song of the earth.
— Graham Joyce
I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.
— Robert Barry
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
The man might have become a Power, but he preferred to remain an Ass.
— H. P. Blavatsky
He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
— Victor Hugo
And, while Jessica had faith enough in Providence, she preferred to seek help from more accessible sources. Her assistant was Phelps, the coachman.
— Loretta Chase
The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.
— John Adams
Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.
— Joe Hill
Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.
— Danny Meyer
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
— Herbert Simon
When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.
— Marilynne Robinson
She had her head in a book. Like me she preferred reading about travel to actually traveling; it was so much more comfortable.
— Zanesh Catkin
You get funky things in Goa, so I like shopping there. Paris and Milan are also my preferred shopping destinations.
— Karisma Kapoor
One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.
— Robert Kennedy
The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.
— Fran Lebowitz
Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The method preferred by most balding men for making themselves look silly is called the comb over.
— Dave Barry
Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.
— Anjelica Huston
She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
— Emile Zola
I preferred to read than talk with the others.
— Hannah Kent
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
— Orson Scott Card
No matter who you are, this contraction is always preferred to the choppy and pretentious alternative: am I not.
— Naveed Saleh
on the other hand, is anything for which less is preferred to more. For Homer, much like most people, work is
— Joshua Hall
Personally I always preferred Lipton's.
— Samuel Beckett
But I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
— Jack Kerouac
The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.
— Lord Haw Haw
In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
I don't really have a preferred genre. It's more up to the individual project itself and if I feel compelled by it.
— Marco Beltrami
As a general rule, I preferred not to have my soul reaped.
— Rick Riordan
He ... preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined ...
— Walter Pater
I've never been seriously involved with anyone. I've certainly never been in love. I've always preferred to keep things casual.
— Rupert Grint
I mostly lived in my dimension
Built up of fantasies and dreams,
Hardly a seeker of attention,
Yet, I preferred to act on whims. — Tatyana K. Varenko
Built up of fantasies and dreams,
Hardly a seeker of attention,
Yet, I preferred to act on whims. — Tatyana K. Varenko
We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.
— Haskell Wexler
I put on 'Starstruck' for my kids, and they started getting bored. I was so upset, I took it off. They preferred 'Home Alone.'
— Gillian Armstrong
Since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
— Charles Bukowski
Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.
— Vivian Mercier
He liked visitors, but he liked to know them before they arrived, and he preferred to ask them himself.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
— Ian McEwan
Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord
preferred to live with whores
& sinners, seeing
I go in for that myself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
preferred to live with whores
& sinners, seeing
I go in for that myself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.
— William O. Douglas
I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.
— Susan Olsen
I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.
— Philip Emeagwali
I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.
— Jacqueline Carey
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
— Terry Pratchett
I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.
— Sam Houston
She had preferred being on the plane, detached from the earth, the illusion of sitting still.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.
— Stephen Sondheim
Feathers needed, swan preferred.
— Shelley Jackson
Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear,
by which I mean pajamas. — Holland Cotter
by which I mean pajamas. — Holland Cotter
If you don't have the right support form the right people you are always going to be the best choice and not the preferred choice.
— Richmond Akhigbe
Madison, or "Maddie," as she preferred, wondered what could be at the end of that road.
— Alice Marks
Up until 'Bridesmaids', the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer.
— Judd Apatow
I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty much always makes sense.
— Jael McHenry
Being around people didn't make me uneasy, I just preferred to be alone most of the time.
— Emily Giffin
You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.
— George Orwell
Indeed, a convent was a kind of early think tank for women, since it was the preferred choice of intellectuals wanting to escape marriage.
— Magnus Flyte
In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.
— Winifred Gallagher
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
— Walter Lippmann
Human beings have always preferred common sense to logic.
— Terry Pratchett
Decrepitude; the preferred clientele, literate.
— Anonymous
Beijing's preferred method of control, in Russia as in Africa, has been legal contracts on terms advantageous to itself.
— Timothy Snyder