Quotes About Preferences

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

The only answer to the question 'Which is the worst of the 'Star Wars' movies?' is, there is no worst 'Star Wars' movie. There - one might be the least amazing and fantastic, but there's none that is the worst of the 'Star Wars' movies.

English women would rather go out and buy a washing machine than shop for clothes.

I've cancelled all my subscriptions to poetry magazines. I prefer to read the 'New Scientist.'

I am not a cat lover. I am a dog lover - but I'm only a lover of hypoallergenic dogs.

Movies cater to what the audiences want.

No, I never thought I would like cats.

I'm not into cats; they aren't my bag.

I understand that some people like certain things more than others, but by the time you are an adult, you really should be able to sit down and eat pretty much anything.

There's always certain actors that are interested in certain things and other actors who aren't.

They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!

I enjoyed 'The Avengers.' I couldn't do that kind of movie though. Superheroes aren't my deal.

I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.

A man makes choices," Tal said. "True, but what choices a man makes depends on what choices he is offered.

I've never met anyone (myself included) who hasn't turned little things into great big emergencies. We take our own goals so seriously that we forget to have fun along the way, and we forget to cut ourselves some slack. We take simple preferences and turn them into conditions for our own happiness. Or, we beat ourselves up if we can't meet our self-created deadlines.

The core premise of economic theory is that people choose by optimizing.

The other guy is obviously meant for me. He's quite short. I don't care about that. I'm quite short myself. I prefer beta males to alphas. Only he keeps telling me to smile. Nothing's as bad as all that, he says. If I were five years old, I'd have bitten him by now.

There are as many preferences as there are men.

All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

Well, men go to musicals. Women are the ones that buy the tickets for plays.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

I date older men, and I date younger men. I have no rules about that.