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• And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

  F. L. Lucas

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• I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don’t know.

  Anne Lamott

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• In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

  Nelson Mandela

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• People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you’ll never see the headlines say, ‘Six billion people got along rather well today.’ You’ll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.

  John Malkovich

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  One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

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• I know it sounds crazy, but you’ve got to let what you’re going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.

  Tom Peters

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• Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

  Sergei Eisenstein

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• The only thing that I’d rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.

  Scott McNealy

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• I’d rather go naked than wear fur.

  Christy Turlington

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• I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.

  Christopher Plummer

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• I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

  Bjork Guomundsdottir

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• Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I’d rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.

  Bjork Guomundsdottir

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• I don’t even have an agent or manager, but rather have a number of associates who I turn to when needed; or conversely when they hear of someone looking for me they’ll contact me.

  Christopher Knight

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• I’d rather buy clothes than buy a bed.

  Christian Siriano

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• Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.

  Chris Wedge

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• I’ve always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician’s work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.

  Christian Bale

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• The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that – rather than just think about it – it’s crucial that you do today what you want to do.

  Robin Gibb

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• I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.

  Robert Teeter

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• You look rather rash my dear your colors don’t quite match your face.

  Daisy Ashford

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• We would all rather see Iraq resolved successfully.

  Charles Kennedy

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