People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
I'd rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team.
American farmers and ranchers deserve a USDA that will pursue supportive policies rather than seek their further harm.
In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.
She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
If manufacturing jobs do come back to the U.S., they will be done by robots in hi-tech parts of the country rather than the Rust Belt states.
Some adults would rather pretend that bad things don't exist than to talk about them.
If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
It was hard to go into the world and start auditioning as real actors. Having to pay bills was rather scary, too.
My fervent expectation is that sooner rather than later, the United States Senate will more closely reflect the rich diversity of this great country.
Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.
I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.
I always lived by railroads, and I would find places to just look at the horizon, and I always expected there was something somewhere else. And sometimes I think that's more a metaphysical somewhere else rather than just to get out of the town.
The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither.
I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.
To some extent, I've always felt that the music should be the thing that creates the emotion in you, rather than a video.
Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.
Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.
I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.
I don't waste as much time at work because I'd rather spend it with my kids.
We know that this man has a proven record of being a 'strict constructionist.' Our President has given us his word that he will interpret the Constitution rather than make new laws from the bench.
Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.
Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.
There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
