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Quotes About Preference

I have a fetish for shoes; makeup and jewellery so I tend to splurge more on these products than clothes.
~ Tanushree Dutta
Introverts prefer introversion; we tend to gain energy by reflecting and expend energy when interacting. Extroverts have the opposite preference; they tend to gain energy by interacting and expend energy while reflecting.
~ Laurie Helgoe
Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.
~ Derek Bok
And they do tend to be fast and up, because that's how I like to drive.
~ Peter Hook
Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes.
~ Andrew Weil
Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.
~ Daniel Goldstein
Honestly, I have a tendency to date dorks. Which means that a lot of times, I date guys that no one else would deem to be a hunk.
~ Ivanka Trump
I don't really like the sport of tennis that much.
~ Nick Kyrgios
I feel like I'm more a fan of tennis rather than it being men's or women's. I enjoy watching doubles as well when it's on. I think that there are certain players that I enjoy watching on the men's and women's side. There's some players that I don't enjoy watching on both sides.
~ Andy Murray
I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.
~ Amy Chua
I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport.
~ Stan Wawrinka
I really enjoy tennis, but football's the game for me.
~ Peter Crouch
I actually like 'The Shining' more than I like Kubrick, I think. The tension he sustains through the whole film is so great.
~ Robert Eggers
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
~ Fran Lebowitz
The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
~ Maggie Rowe
I don't have a favorite genre. I think 'genre' is a literary term. I don't have a favorite kind or type of movie. I like the ones that are good.
~ Tommy Lee Jones
I can't say that I wouldn't prefer to make small films, basically because I think they are probably more interesting in terms of the material. But every now and again, it's quite good to do a big one.
~ John Hurt
I think one of the problems when we discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict is people talk too much in terms of, 'What's your preference?,' like politics is a Chinese menu - I'll take one from column A and two from column B. That's not what politics is about.
~ Norman Finkelstein
I'm terrible with decisions. And I can't make myself do something I don't like. I can't knuckle under.
~ Bernard Sumner
It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.
~ Lev Grossman
I wasn't terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn't terribly fond of the DC comics characters. I was a Marvel boy.
~ Benjamin Bratt
If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.
~ Robert Patterson
love threatens an individual's defenses and source of internal gratification and leaves the person feeling vulnerable. Individuals generally react negatively or angrily to being chosen, to being seen as lovable, or to being preferred over others. Personal
~ Robert W. Firestone
Few women would prefer an unemployed and rudderless man to an ambitious and successful one, all other things being even roughly equal; and few men would choose an obese, unattractive, and dull woman over a shapely, beautiful, sharp one.
~ Robert Wright