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Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.
Joy Page
Life
You
Way
Claiming
Rather
Than
Anything
Manifesting
Stand
Choose
Default
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.
Joyce Carol Oates
Feeling
Pain
Paralysis
About
Rather
More
Winning
Devastating
Boxing
Hit
Than
Hitting
Just
Being
Psychological
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
Joyce Cary
Truth
Experience
Argument
Rather
Emotional
Emotional Truth
Than
Convey
Should
Novel
Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.
Joyce Giraud
Smile
Truth
Me
Lie
People
Try
Some People
Would
Some
Rather
Cry
Make
Makes
Opposite
Than
Them
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.
Juan Goytisolo
Architecture
Invent
Situation
Secret
Characters
Rather
Structures
Write
Combined
According
Textual
Arts
Which
Forms
Themselves
Plastic
Actions
Now
Among
I'd rather have a hot dog than caviar.
Juan Pablo Montoya
Dog
Rather
Hot
Hot Dog
Caviar
Than
I've always thought Prince Charming in 'Cinderella' was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch.
Jude Law
Thought
Wicked
Cinderella
Boring
Charming
Rather
Prince
Prince Charming
Most
Witch
Always
Role
When you suddenly appear on the scene and you are the new face, everything centers on you. I experienced this in my mid-20s and I found it rather hard.
Jude Law
You
Face
Everything
Rather
Scene
New
Experienced
Centers
Hard
Appear
Suddenly
Found
First. I began my career as a copy girl. and the White House coverage, for example, was in the then-Women's section. So it was social coverage. It wasn't news, although we often got rather startling news out of it.
Judith Martin
News
Girl
Example
First
White
White House
Section
Out
Rather
For Example
House
Although
Got
Coverage
Began
Often
Social
Copy
Career
Startling
You don't try to have the very lowest cost of an asset. You try to have the right asset. So rather than thinking about the lowest cost, the question is how do you get the best productivity.
Judith McKenna
Best
You
Try
Thinking
About
Cost
Rather
How
Question
Very
Than
Get
Lowest
Productivity
Asset
Right
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
Judy Garland
Love
Silence
Man
People
Words
Few
Thousands
Thousands Of People
One-Man
Rather
Wished
Than
Often
Just
Applause
Night
Nudity is no big deal as a German. It's all rather normal and boring.
Juergen Teller
Big
No Big Deal
Boring
Rather
Deal
Big Deal
Normal
German
I don't have just one role model - rather, pieces of inspiration from many different entrepreneurs. One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that it naturally enables you to build a village of advisors and role models.
Julia Hartz
Great
You
Entrepreneur
Great Things
Build
About
Rather
Inspiration
Entrepreneurs
Pieces
Advisor
Enables
Model
Role
Role Model
Role Models
Models
Just
Being
Different
Just One
Naturally
Many
Village
Things
For a global company, it is imperative to respect and honor local culture and weave that into the core company values rather than the other way around.
Julia Hartz
Respect
Culture
Honor
Values
Other
Local
Way
Weave
Rather
Imperative
Global
Around
Than
Company
Core
What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.
Julia Roberts
Changes
Perceptions
Rather
Individual
Fame
Than
Why not try thinking of your life as hilarious rather than nightmarish?
Julia Sweeney
Life
Try
Hilarious
Thinking
Rather
Than
Your
Why
Why Not
Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It brought people from different lands together, co-operating rather than competing over resources.
Julian Baggini
Together
People
Resources
Evolution
Vital
Brought
Rather
Both
Allowed
Over
Trade
Efficiency
Than
Role
Different
Which
Social
Skill
Lands
Played
Humankind
Levels
Competing
Raises
The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments.
Julian Baggini
Result
Free
Argument
Become
Reflect
Own
Our
Entirely
Something
Rather
More
Facts
Freer
Make
Either
Capacity
Choices
Assess
I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence.
Julian Clary
World
Rest
Live
Rather
Sure
How
Am
Sheltered
Existence
Aware
I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.
Julian Cope
Positive
Time
Myself
Good
Hate
Energy
Would
Rather
Lot
Any
Realize
Use
Wastes
I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.
Juliana Hatfield
You
Believe
Else
Everything
Someone
Something
Rather
Having
Learn
Always
Jumping
Than
Person
Trying
Just
Much
Teach
If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.
Julie Andrews
Love
You
Director
Better
Says
Embarrassing
Rather
Scene
Particularly
Love Scene
Then
I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.
Julie Benz
Time
Me
Natural
Think
Rather
Than
Move
Skating
Transition
Acting
Full
Figure
Figure Skating
Full-Time
Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.
Julie Burchill
Love
You
People
Discipline
Mind
Otherwise
Type
Broad
Despises
Solely
Pleasure
Those
Pretend
Admit
Rather
Except
Through
Gladly
Generally
Reached
She
Always
Proven
Been
Conditions
Very
Lack
Size
Who
Now
Medical
Fat
No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.
Julie Burchill
Sad
Fashion
Woman
Matter
Old
Glorious
Control
Indeed
Rather
Sees
Self-Expression
How
Than
Models
Social
Agent
Means
Who
Some of what the children did in 'Willy Wonka' is now normal. That's rather worrying.
Julie Dawn Cole
Worrying
Some
Rather
Normal
Did
Children
Now
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