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You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have before.

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed.

I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

I'd much rather do one or two takes of one thing and then see how it goes.

I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile.