quotes about Preference
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In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
-- Al AlvarezSource : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing
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Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.
-- Alberto Manguel -
PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the union than not in the union.
-- Bill ShortenSource : Source: www.abc.net.au
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But our preferences do not determine what's true.
-- Carl Sagan -
That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.
-- Charles Inglis -
I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.
-- Christine BaranskiSource : Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. June 7, 2006.
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When you put your preferences on the altar of your life and say: THIS. THIS is what compels me. The real you emerges.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.
-- David Hume -
I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.
-- Ed McBain -
Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time
-- Eric S. Raymond -
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
-- Gamaliel Bailey -
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
-- Gwendolyn BrooksSource : Gwendolyn Brooks (1988). “Gottschalk and the grande tarantelle”, Third World Pr
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Preferences are bad solutions to performance problems.
-- Havoc Pennington -
I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
-- Henry James -
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The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.
-- Heraclitus -
They [human beings] are unwilling to gamble that God made those people who are skilled at rational argumentation uniquely virtuous. They protect themselves and others from cleverness by obscuring their preferences.
-- James G. MarchSource : "How Decisions Happen in Organizations". Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 6, 1991.
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To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.
-- James Randi -
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
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People should always have something which they prefer to life.
-- Johann Gottfried Seume -
The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.
-- John B. S. Haldane -
Your being is real and it gets to have everything. It gets to have your preferences, your person, and all of your plans.
-- John de Ruiter -
Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference:
-- Ken Keyes Jr. -
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
-- Lance Loud -
My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
-- Lance Loud -
Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.
-- Lavrenti Lopes -
I'm an American before any party preference.
-- Lynn Anderson -
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Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.
-- Malcolm Gladwell -
I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country.
-- Mariano Rivera -
I usually go for the ethnic ladies. That's kinda my preference, but I don't discriminate.
-- Mark SallingSource : "Mark Salling Has A “Type” (And Her Name is Santana)". Interview with Casey Lewis, www.clevver.com. October 13, 2010.
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A true gentleman doesn’t prefer blondes. A true gentleman doesn’t have any preferences whatsoever.
-- Matt LeBlanc -
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I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.
-- Miuccia Prada -
I am so territorial, that [from the start] I just felt like whatever I was gonna do I was gonna write it myself, its my personal preference to always be in control of everything I do in life.
-- Nicki Minaj -
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The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
-- Sengcan -
I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
Somebody's sexual preference is, like, who cares?
-- Toby Keith -
My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.
-- Tony ShalhoubSource : Source: movieweb.com
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
-- Vince Vaughn -
We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.
-- Virginia E. Johnson -
I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.
-- Willem Dafoe -
Importance, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder and that there is nothing inherently "logical" about the preference of users in looking for one component rather than another of a compound heading.
-- Hans H Wellisch -
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A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes.
-- Michael Hersch -
Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.
-- David GreenbergSource : David Greenberg (2006). “Calvin Coolidge: The American Presidents Series: The 30th President, 1923-1929”, p.20, Macmillan
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My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues.
-- Ronnie Dunn -
Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted "first readers".
-- Rose TremainSource : "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Rose Tremain, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
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When you decide to like something, I mean, you may feel you're sort of innocently putting out your preferences, but actually you're delivering something of enormous value, which is indicating that, you know, you'd essentially like to be advertised to by this company.
-- Tim Wu