Quotes About Preferences

People really want different things depending on who they are.

Some people hate the remixes, some people think it's cool. If you don't like that type of music and just like rock, you probably won't like it. But if you are open to more things, you just might dig it.

There are a lot of people I dislike in the world. I mean, a lot. I don't follow any of them on Twitter.

It's not that I am a difficult person; it's just that I have certain strong likes and dislikes.

We're long on conversation in our house. Therefore, I don't like going to restaurants too much. There are too many distractions.

My husband is experimental, loves to cook, and is really good at it. If I do the cooking, I lose my appetite. Why is that?

I can't stand going to those sandwich bars where you've got to choose your own stuff, because I don't know what goes together. It does my head in. I'd rather them tell me. I'm not the expert. I haven't spent years learning these different combinations.

I listen to anything country and anything classical. Two great extremes.

Everything you do on Facebook will affect what comes in your view in the future. If you like crappy things that you don't care about, you'll see more crappy brands that you don't care about in the future, and it might even affect your experiences when you walk into bars, churches, schools, shopping malls, etc.

Okay, I like the Clash. I like Tears for Fears. I like A-ha.

My audiences are generally mixed. Some people like techno, others are into the pop music, and others enjoy my film music.

The market groups and demographics said, 'Teenage guys don't read magazines.'

If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.

More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.

So we have the story of who we are. I'm a man, and I'm a comedian, and I'm a tall man. I have big teeth and all these things, and I like the first two Batman movies, and I don't drink coffee, or whatever it is.

I don't really read a lot. I got a few Booker Prize books and some others and thought I'd try this but quite quickly I just stick them down. I do like some Stephen King books but with some of them I just put them down as well. But I'm like that with telly stuff as well and films or music.

In short both the things we feel we need and the things available for us to buy depend largely—beyond some point, almost entirely—on the things that others choose to buy.

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

Never marry someone who doesn't love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love you.

Were I a writer, and dead, how I would love it if my life, through the pains of some friendly and detached biographer, were to reduce itself to a few details, a few preferences, a few inflections, let us say: to biographemes whose distinction and mobility might go beyond any fate and come to touch, like Epicurean atoms, some future body, destined to the same dispersion.

I know a good chop house near Macy's. Do you like mutton chops?" "Hate them." "Idiot. That heavy, gamy taste … nothing like it." "Can I get a broiled kidney?" "Of course." "Then let's have lunch at your chop house.

Girls spend slightly more time playing with the doll than with the truck. Boys on the other hand typically spend great deal more time playing with the truck rather than with the doll.

No. I like my girls fully conscious when I kiss 'em. I'm funny that way

REBT, then, helps you not only to understand what you "are" but to change what you harmfully think, feel, and do. It accepts your desires, wishes, preferences, goals, and values, then tries to help you achieve them. But REBT shows you how to separate your preferences from your insistences—and thus keep from sabotaging your own goals. It gives you insight into what you are now doing rather than into what you (and your damned parents!) have done.