I really don’t despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.
I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I’m rubbish.
I used to type, but now, typing or working with a computer, I get a stiff neck. So I prefer writing longhand.
I don’t like trainers, because we distract each other. We talk too much, and I get too friendly. I prefer classes instead. I love Physique 57.
It doesn’t bother me to work with so much green screen. I prefer real settings obviously.
I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.
I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational.
Oh, I don’t think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That’s not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he’d prefer me to do it than somebody else.
Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: ‘1 million records sold in America.’ I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.
Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that’s really a misperception. Because actually it’s just that introverts are differently social. So they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers.
When I’m engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I’m not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work.
Today, reishi stands out as one the most valuable of all polypore mushrooms in nature for the benefit of our health. Many naturopaths and doctors prefer organically-grown reishi from pristine environments because they are more pure.
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to ‘unreliable.’
I’ve never tried to emulate anyone. I’ve never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.
I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it’s not about an older or younger thing. It’s a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.
I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.
I am not someone who enjoys being followed and harassed. I prefer to stay at home with my family than to go out.
I’m not a proper traveler. I don’t like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
I love children. I’d prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I’m just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.
Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don’t leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads.
We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.
Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.
I am rubbish at the gym. I prefer to exercise by moving around – it doesn’t matter whether I am dancing on a Friday night or on my bike getting from A to B.
I prefer sayings over jokes.
I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than sleep.
I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
I never appreciated ‘positive heroes’ in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more ‘productive’ literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
What do we mean by soft matter? Americans prefer to call it ‘complex fluids.’ This is a rather ugly name, which tends to discourage the young students.
A work-only zone does wonders for your productivity. So, I prefer working at the office now. I spend 8 focused hours there, then I go home to be present with my family.
For me, I prefer to be the heel.
I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.
The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.
If you’re very introverted, you prefer to spend much of your time alone, and when you do connect, you’d rather get together with one or two close friends than face a crowd.
I’m not really keen on men wearing perfumes. It’s just a bit wrong! I don’t find it sexy. I prefer essential oils – patchouli is nice.
I prefer film and that’s what I think I’m gonna put my focus on.
For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.
I won’t wear fur – never, ever. I’m an animal lover. I wouldn’t even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.
I don’t know the definition of a star; I am just an actor. I prefer doing hard work, as I feel luck can’t do much in absence of hard work. I am a lazy person – when I entered into this industry, I thought it was a cakewalk, but I have realised it needs a lot of patience and hard work.
Indians do not like Indian teachers; they prefer foreigners, but there is a huge demand for Indian teachers around the world.
On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
I don’t think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I’m not, I feel bad. I don’t care for failure. I’ve failed at a number of things, and it’s not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success.
I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I’d prefer not to.
I always prefer other people’s interpretations over my own, so I’m not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
In general, I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for a disproportionate number of weeks to come. It’s very healthy.
I don’t watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something gets you when you’re alone and someone’s voice is coming through their work. There’s a different quality to it that stays with you a bit more.
I’ve always had fun with music, but I prefer to listen to it rather than sing.
I prefer to write books for children instead of reading them. But I do strongly believe in childhood and in respecting childhood innocence. I don’t like books for children that deal with adult themes.
Sure, I like ice cream, but when you keep a healthy lifestyle, it’s: Do you prefer sweets and crappy food, or do you prefer to have a nice body? It depends on what you want more.
We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I prefer to eat at my desk. Actually, I wander around the design studio with a plate in my hand as I dine on, for example, salmon sashimi and a salad of tomatoes and mozzarella. I often have a bit of dark chocolate after lunch.
I’m not a social retard, but I prefer to go unnoticed.
After two wars, I have been in danger too often to bother very much about being killed, and when it comes, I would prefer that it should happen in an aeroplane, since aeroplanes have been the best part of my life.
I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn’t go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.
I don’t know any people that like watching themselves. I prefer not to.
I would prefer not to be involved in party politics.
I got hooked on espresso when I visited Italy at 18, but these days I prefer a ‘flat white.’ It’s like a small latte with less milk – they’re popular in Australia.
Quite frankly, I would prefer to have a non-Christian like Mitt Romney who at least pretends to embrace biblical principles over a professing Christian like Barack Obama who embraces very unbiblical positions on abortion.
I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn’t mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they’ve done something wrong – the desire to leave is completely understandable.
There’s some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most abject conditions. Maybe there are some things at work in deciding who gets to be society’s winners and who gets to be society’s losers that don’t have to do with merit.
I’ve always said, I prefer the opera to the soap – those extreme characters and circumstances.
I just prefer instrumental. I don’t need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear – I don’t need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.
