#refer

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do? What a waste, what a senseless waste! But what of those things which you actually didn't like, not because you were not supposed to like them, not because to dislike them was considered a mark of refinement and education - but because you actually found them distasteful? The very idea annoyed me. How could you know? It involved a problem of choice. I would have to weigh many things carefully before deciding and there would be some things that would cause quite a bit of trouble, simply because I had never formed a personal attitude toward so much. I had accepted the accepted attitudes and it had made life seem simple ... ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#choice #preferences #attitude

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#feel #i #i feel #impelled #language

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#eggs #i #myself #new #new zealand

I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#country #desire #does #done #i

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird. ↗

— Colin Firth

#actually #become #delighted #find #i

It doesn't bother me to work with so much green screen. I prefer real settings obviously. ↗

— Joe Flanigan

#green #green screen #i #me #much

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them. ↗

— Charles Vest

#cost #federal #federal government #government #i

The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters. ↗

— George Foreman

#fighters #going #important #important person #most

I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#care #coming #focus #forward #happened

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#calling #charity #governments #i #i think