All Quotes

I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.
‐‐ Rick Springfield

I would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which is a series of private plans.
‐‐ Amy Klobuchar

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
‐‐ Euripides

I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth.
‐‐ Knute Nelson

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
‐‐ Sophocles

I would prefer it if people thought that I didn't work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a week and was like, 'Check out this song - what do you think?' That would be ideal. I would prefer telling people that I'm just truly talented.
‐‐ Julian Casablancas

I would prefer myself to own all of my brand, where everything I am responsible for myself.
‐‐ Roustam Tariko

I would prefer not to be involved in party politics.
‐‐ George Soros

I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.
‐‐ Don Winslow

I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
‐‐ Bao Dai

I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring.
‐‐ Conor Oberst

I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.
‐‐ Bill Viola

I would prefer to be well-liked in any and all situations.
‐‐ Janeane Garofalo

I would prefer to direct without also starring in the same project.
‐‐ Julie Ann Emery

I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
‐‐ Camille Claudel

I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.
‐‐ Li Na

I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
‐‐ Ben Carson

I would prefer to keep my clothes on. Unless there's a brisk breeze or something, I tend to keep them on.
‐‐ Allison Williams

I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.
‐‐ Olivia De Havilland

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.
‐‐ Helena Bonham Carter

I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.
‐‐ Brad Garrett

I would probably choose supporting roles if I had to make a choice. It's actually a really hard thing to say. It's all on a role-by-role basis, ultimately. I shouldn't be so quick to say that. I feel like you're given greater license to be colorful and eccentric in supporting roles, and that's interesting to me.
‐‐ Paul Giamatti

I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
‐‐ Val Kilmer

I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.
‐‐ Craig Roberts

I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.
‐‐ Thomas P. Campbell

I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.
‐‐ Che Guevara

I would probably, in my 60s, be ready to start having kids, as long as I was spared all the stuff about it that doesn't appeal to me. By then, I'd have lost interest in practically everything, so there'd be no opportunity cost involved.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
‐‐ Landon Donovan

I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!
‐‐ Conor Maynard

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.
‐‐ Carol Vorderman

I would put my million dollars up as well.
‐‐ James Randi

I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I don't think there's another director in the world who works harder to make better films than I do.
‐‐ John Cassavetes

I would put myself towards left of center.
‐‐ Yvette Clarke

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
‐‐ Barack Obama

I would quite like to create a fragrance for men though - something that I like.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.
‐‐ Charlotte Church

I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.
‐‐ Kate Beckinsale

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.
‐‐ Eve Ensler

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
‐‐ Elizabeth I

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.
‐‐ Mary MacLane

I would rather be a security guard than a rock star.
‐‐ Bruce McCulloch

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
‐‐ Alben W. Barkley

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
‐‐ Jack London

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
‐‐ Plautus

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.
‐‐ Susan Rice

I would rather be an independent senator, governed by my own views, going for the good of the country, uncontrolled by any thing which mortal man can bring to bear upon me, than to be president of the United States, put there as presidents of the United States have been for many years past.
‐‐ John C. Calhoun

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
‐‐ Jack London

I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bunch reunion.
‐‐ Susan Olsen