I watched football, but I was a kid who really preferred being out on the street with my mates playing hide and seek!
I used to think that guys preferred tall women. But plenty of them like short girls.
I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.
We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone.
The only place in the world where, I think, leaders have preferred Trump are in Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia and Israel.
We are building OYO to be the preferred hospitality brand for consumers in the new post-COVID reality.
The method preferred by most balding men for making themselves look silly is called the comb over.
I have always preferred paper and ink to a computer screen and I still write most of my lyrics by hand.
In America they started to refer to Telegram as 'ISIS's preferred messaging app,' But in reality there are many more legitimate users.
I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means of investing money.
Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear,
by which I mean pajamas.
He groaned and I saw his face. "Curran!" I would've preferred a homicidal lunatic. Oh, wait...
I would have preferred to capture bin Laden and expose how he uses Islamic ideology for his own purposes.
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.
I used to say I preferred midfield because I enjoy trying to make goals, and scoring is a buzz.
I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.
I naturally, when I make beats, aim for a darker tone just because I've always preferred those types of feelings.
I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.
I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.
Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.
As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products, of course.)
The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins
I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.
The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.
We want to keep a preferred rate for capital gains - we think it is important to encourage investment.
Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.
The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.
Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.
Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
When I was young, I preferred dogs, but when I moved into a flat when I was 18, it wasn't practical to have a dog. So I got a couple of kittens, and that was it.
Leandros's favorite place had turned out not to be vegetarian, but vegan, which was for people who preferred their suicide slow.
I never run away from things but confront them, and I preferred to stay on the periphery of Mumbai film industry.
I put on 'Starstruck' for my kids, and they started getting bored. I was so upset, I took it off. They preferred 'Home Alone.'
My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.
Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.
The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.
I received many offers - namely from Real Madrid, Manchester United, and Milan - but I preferred the tranquillity of playing for Fiorentina.
Anyone who has spoken to experienced combat troops knows that they rarely brag about their exploits. Strong and silent is the preferred style.
Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth.
I'm the one usually wearing the dress, which is what I would've preferred, but they wouldn't let me. It's been 15 years since I did that and my ass isn't as good as it used to be.
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Of course I would have preferred to win in the Supreme Court as personal vindication and to vacate my sentence.
When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred,
He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"
It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?
since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
Gujarat, with its all inclusive, sustainable and rapid growth, is emerging as a globally preferred place to live in and to do business.
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so long he is the repository of power.
All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.
Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.
I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.
The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.
As a kid, I didn't drift into the comic world too much because I preferred to read fantasies novels and science fiction.
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