#rather

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#covered #dancing #david #doing #else

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#country #depends #every #form #government

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture. ↗

— Edward T. Hall

#any #between #culture #denigrate #does

I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all. ↗

— Geri Halliwell

#before #best #dancer #fall #i

I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world. ↗

— Geri Halliwell

#because #biscuits #communicate #disease #front

I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently. ↗

— Justin Halpern

#cool #curse #curses #eloquently #father

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#begin #characters #defects #dwell #engaging

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#man #rather #reasonable #reasoning #than

We inhabit a language rather than a country. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#inhabit #language #rather #than

Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus? ↗

— William Rowan Hamilton

#conqueror #fame #his #rather #than