My country music, it might sound like Hank Williams - that's just the way it is. But I'd rather sound like Hank Williams than Trace Adkins.

I would rather perform live than do any kind of lip-synching or something like that. I don't like to lip-synch.

I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

I would rather just do the things I want to do.

I would rather be right than happy.

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.

I'd rather be the underdog than anything.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do.

Looking at U.N. staff and budgetary rules and regulations, one might think some of them were designed to prevent, rather than enable, the effective delivery of our mandates. It benefits no one if it...

I would rather feel elegant in a low heel than tower above everybody.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

I love when architects build a golf course that compliments the landscape rather than intrudes upon it.

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

You totally can have it all if you want it all. And there's nothing wrong with wanting it all. But also, there's nothing wrong with not having it all if you want a career rather than kids, or vice...

I'd always rather be lucky than smart.

I would rather watch 'Blackadder' thousands of times. I'm sure there are people who probably watch 'The Inbetweeners' that much.

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

Rather than use the term 'profiling,' the profilers prefer to say they engage in criminal investigative analysis. That is because, besides developing profiles, the analysts offer a range of other...

I'd rather form my own party than ever join Ukip. We could call it the Widdy Mob. I'm joking.

She is elegant rather than beautiful.

I'd rather be just a Korean musician than a K-Pop musician.

I've become rather desensitized to how much sexy I put out.

I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

When I was a kid, people called me Emily rather than Esperanza, even though my full name is Esperanza Emily Spalding.

I felt, selfishly, that if there was going to be a TV show about 'Hannibal Lecter' whether I was going to be involved or not, I'd rather be involved. I wanted to make sure it was something I wanted to...

I honestly don't have a lot of friends that are actors. Most of my friends I've known since sixth grade and are out of the industry. It gives me a sense of reality rather than surrounding myself with...

I've just been very interested in the living side of Washington, rather than the federal side, since I was a kid.

We should vote for an individual rather than a party.