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  • Abe Lemons I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
    Abe Lemons
    American basketball player and coach (1922 - 2002)
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  • Bryan Fuller I felt, selfishly, that if there was going to be a TV show about 'Hannibal Lecter' whether I was going to be involved or not, I'd rather be involved. I wanted to make sure it was something I wanted to watch.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Francis Bacon I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Alexander the Great I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • William Shakespeare I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Oliver Cromwell I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Samuel Johnson I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Christopher Hampton I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Blaise Pascal I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Henry Miller I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bryant H. McGill I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Francis Bacon I have rather studied books than men.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Adele I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Art Linkletter I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Bryan Singer I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • Shirley Conran I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.
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  • Ben Jonson I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind,
    For else it could not be,
    That she,
    Whom I adore so much, should so slight me,
    And cast my love behind.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio IX, My Picture Left in Scotland, lines 1-5.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Anita Hill I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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