#rather

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#embargo #imposed #maintained #nicaragua #power

It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.' ↗

— Richard D. James

#clever #effect #emotional #guitar #guitar solos

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish. ↗

— Oliver St. John

#irish #irish people #people #politics #rather

I'd so much rather people think I was funny than pretty. ↗

— Kristen Johnston

#i #much #people #pretty #rather

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#animal #being #cage #caged #dead

When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#completely #far #get #get together #i

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear. ↗

— Herb Kelleher

#company #fear #love #rather #stronger

When I found the book was condemned as soon as the book was printed, or rather as soon as it was set up ready to print, I held it in plates for a year nearly, waiting to see what would come out of all this discussion. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#come #condemned #discussion #found #held

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#around #authority #best #bottom-up #central

Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#crazy #drives #gone #her #martina