Preference Quotations

I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.

Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.

When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they're working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work.

I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country.

I'm not a fan - this is a personal preference - I'm not a fan of tour-de-force writing. I admire it, but it's not where my inclination is. I want to hide.

The whole idea that someone should not be able to marry who they love based on their gender and their preference is ridiculous.

When a couple has a strong preference for a baby boy or girl, who is injured by allowing them to choose? Certainly not the child.

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

I have a strong preference for being alive.

Consuming less is the fastest way to eco-fashion redemption - particularly if your preference is for leather, not hemp.

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

I have worked on PCs and on Macs and, while I have my preferences, I don't find it crippling to work on one rather than the other.

It's none of our business, the sexual preference of people. So, I hope if someone's thinking about it, that if they do come out as gay and are a professional football player, and it makes them happy, and it makes their life easier, then I think they should do it.

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.

I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.

One of the major implications is that it shows us how these two processes, both preference for elaborate mates and preference for genetically complementary mates, can both occur in a population. It highlights the importance of taking into account the environment in which the animals are behaving.

I wouldn't go out and automatically seek out dividend-paying stocks. They are now taxed at the same rate, but capital gains retain their preference because you can defer capital gains.

My door is always open to any member who wishes to build consensus on reducing unnecessary spending. My preference is to consider any proposal in a thoughtful, deliberate manner rather than reading about it in the newspaper.

Obviously, if we knew it was going to play out this way, we wouldn't have done it. My preference would be to keep him. We're a much better team with him. My preference is for everyone to be happy in this game. Organizations do better, players do better when we're all happy.

Obviously my preference is to open the batting but I just hope I'm not seen by people as purely an opener. When I play overseas I rarely open the batting. I batted number four for Yorkshire for most of the season and, in one-day games, I often move into number three ... if the selectors can't find a place for me as an opener, that's fine, I'll take any opportunity in the order.

My first preference would be to test the market, without closing the door on coming back. I feel I have earned the opportunity to explore my options.

If we have more demand for a specific movie than we have copies of that movie, we will give preference to our lower-volume customers.

If they are successful, they will be doing a very chunky rights issue. Our preference is that they stick to what they've got and do that better.

Laying-off permanent workers is so difficult and costly that companies have a strong preference for temp jobs, even if it is at the expense of productivity. When labor protection has become excessive and unaffordable, as it is in France, labor market institutions must be reformed.

Minnesotans voted their preference today for leaders who will build bridges rather than moats.

So far, we've built awareness. Seven years ago we weren't a very well known brand. Now we are, and now we have to build preference and emotional attachment.

Signing one-year deals, you look at the future and you know what's going to happen. My preference is to stay here for sure . . . . If (a trade) is going to help the hockey club, that's what they have to do.

Several of us have invested in low-cost countries, but our preference is to be in the United States. But you've got to have a manufacturing agenda that takes account of all of these structural issues. If not, it will keep on migrating.

I hate them both equally. We've just got to get to the championship first and then we'll see, but I really don't have a preference between Minnesota and Duluth, I'd like to beat them both.

I have a preference for writing that deals with domestic issues; even in visual art, I like work that focuses on very small aspects of human life. I like movies that have a very narrow focus. I can see how it might be viewed as limiting, but I don't experience it that way.

I enjoy all aspects of it, I don't have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would hope they each inform the other in some way.

For too long Kimberly-Clark, maker of Kleenex brand tissue products, has told us that it uses no recycled content in its tissue products because of consumer preference and demand. Well, the data are in and as we've been saying since the launch of this campaign, consumers do not want to have Canada?s Boreal forest destroyed for the production of disposal products. It's time for Kimberly Clark to listen to consumers and drastically change the recycled content in its disposable paper products.

Bryan has decided that his preference is to leave the Suns, and under those circumstances, we saw no other option other than to accept his decision.

I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else.

Human taste is complex, and I'm not sure it can be accounted for. This is one of the biggest challenges we face because preference engines are based on the idea that if we agree on three movies, we will agree on the fourth. But it often doesn't work that way.

We make residence hall assignments according to our students' preferences, and in recent years the number of students expressing a preference for all-women's housing has decreased to less than 200, ... The vast majority of incoming students want to live on campus in a coed residence hall.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

He went through all the (minicamps), and just a few weeks ago he was out here running plays. .... It's always a coaches preference to have everybody for the full time, but it doesn't always work that way, and we feel confident that we'll pick up with what (he's) missed and catch him up.

For me, my preference for comedy is grounding it in the psychology of the character, and not just kind of making faces. Even when it's a crazy character, grounded comedy resonates more with people because it doesn't look like you're watching someone do vaudeville. No offense to vaudeville.

My personal preference is that I like to think in terms of planning for the next 100 years, not the next 10 or 15, so I think the subway is the way to go. It makes sense.

My personal preference is to go along with the press' sense of entitlement because it's easier to go along with it than try to fight it. But I don't think he thinks that way.

My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even though I've had problems with writers, it doesn't matter how great of an actor you are. If the writing is bad, you're going to struggle.

My preference is that either she comes tomorrow or waits until after this weekend, because the Giants are going to be in Houston,

My preference is to keep him, because we're a much better team with him. But I'll never close the door on an opportunity to make everybody happy. My preference is for everyone to be happy in this game. Organizations and players do better when we're all happy.

My preference is to keep him. He's done an awesome job. When the season's over, we'll sit down and talk, map out a plan and go from there. We're trying to find out if he has to take classes to work toward a teaching license. I appreciate the rule, (but) it can handicap small schools.

My preference would be the weekend when Edmonton plays.

My preference would be to deploy them as warriors, (rather than peacekeepers),

My preference would be to get it over with this year, ... If the Judiciary Committee doesn't complete its work next week it would be pretty certain it would have to be carried over.

My preference would be to keep him, you're a much better team with him. But I'll never close the door -- ever -- on an opportunity to make everybody happy.

My preference would be to see a dramatic increase in the dividend; I think they'd get more bang for their buck. They clearly have the financial capability to triple it; I think they could attract more investors and get a higher stock price more readily.

My preference would be to start as early as possible. I get extremely nervous. I can't eat all day long. I just want to get up there and get it over with.

My own preference would be for the Fed to state explicitly what it's aiming at, ... That would be helpful in quieting the bond market. But I don't think it's going to happen.

Many have Iowa ties, but not everyone. My preference is someone with Iowa ties and roots.

I sat the bench (with the Kings) for I don't know how many games. It is just a coach's preference whether or not they are going to play players or not.

My parents owned a pharmacy in Budapest, which gave us a comfortable living. As I was their only child, they wanted me to become a pharmacist. But my own preference would have been to study philosophy and mathematics.

It is desirable to have a balance on the court. And two women, I think, are a minimum, ... My preference would be to see that kind of diversity maintained, but I don't believe anybody ought to tie the president's hands.

I think Mike Gallo did a wonderful when he came back from Triple-A last year and carried us down the stretch as the only lefthander. It would be my preference to have two lefties, but that's not set in stone.

It is clearly our preference that WJ recognize the merits of this so we can sit down and chat about it on a very cooperative basis on the near term, ... But, as I commented, we are considering all of our options including a tender offer.

It is in Australia's interests that we promote it in preference to other areas,

Our preference is local. But I can't find any local organic rose farms.

Our preference is not to discuss these cases because they're ongoing and involve informants and information that we don't want to jeopardize.

Our preference is the sooner the better. People in the markets prefer certainty versus uncertainty.

Our preference is to act through diplomacy in conjunction with friends and allies. ... Obviously, we retain the right to use force.

Our preference is to first identify a home away from home venue for our football team. The possibilities, there are more than a handful right now. We haven't weighed in on any of them at this point, and we haven't ruled any of them out.

Our preference is to go alone, but we're keeping doors open on other options, including a partnership. We understand the Koreans have a lot of pride in their industry, and there's a lot of concern about foreign ownership of a core industry.

Our preference is to reach a resolution with the pilots directly and not involve outside parties.

Our preference is to seek a longer-term solution that will permit the orderly development of textile and apparel trade. But the United States will have no hesitation in walking away from a bad deal.

Our preference is to solve these problems by peaceful and diplomatic means, but the President has also been very clear that we're not taking any options off the table,

Our preference was to resolve this amicably out of court. We don't enjoy going into federal court. It's very expensive for both parties.

Our preference would be an Afghan force composed of all ethnic groups, of course under the U.N.,

Our preference would be to have a seven-day recovery.

Our preference would be to move the Marshall game to Saturday and then play the following Saturday against Houston. Whether or not that can be worked out, I don't know.

Our preference would have been to keep existing site. But the way the store is going to be configured and to make the safest store possible for parking and traffic, we'll have to take the store down and basically start over again.

Our strong preference is to have a document that everyone can be proud of.

Our strong preference is to have our striking workers return to work.

Our first preference is to first identify a home away from home venue for our football team.

It isn't that people aren't buying SUVs -- they've shifted their segment preference into mid-size and small SUVs, and now into hybrid SUVs.

I think we're the industry leader in terms of how we sell on our own Web site. Clearly our preference is to sell them ourselves if we can.

It becomes dangerous for somebody who doesn't want their boss to know their sexual preference to use online networks to push for laws supporting gay marriage or same-sex partner rights if they can't do so with a pseudonym.

The preference is not to sell the house as is.

The preference to creating jobs is increasing and fear of unemployment among people has decreased.

I would advise an incoming gay professor to stay closeted depending on the department they work in, for some are more liberal and accepting than others. Prior to becoming tenured, they may be judged on their sexual preference instead of their expertise, intelligence and research.

You just have to come up with something, because there really, really is no differentiation between the blacks and the whites here and the browns. ... Nobody gets preference in that regard.

You'll see it in the newspapers. Oracle's strong preference is to do everything hostilely.

When students complain about class availability, we have no way of knowing if that's the availability of their preference or the availability of anything at all.

We can say with great certainty that feather color affects female preference for particular males and that changes in the signal have really important consequences in terms of whose offspring you're caring for.

We do not believe sexual preference should be given special legal protection or standing in law.

My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the union than not in the union.

That would be my preference as a trader, because then we won't have this overhang. What would be the catalyst that offsets that overhang and causes stocks to rally?

We have previously stated a preference for the field to be connected by pipeline to an LNG plant in Darwin and that is still Woodside's position, but it is not something that has been settled.

The question is, what do we want our world to look like? People have stated a strong preference to policy-makers that, 'We want our world to bear some resemblance to that which we once knew.' That includes fish and mussels.

Whereas last year there was a clear popular preference for Mr Brown over Mr Blair as Prime Minister, that has now all but vanished.

When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed...she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.