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I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

Matthew McConaughey

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

William Shakespeare

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals‘ imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

Thomas Sowell

No, I can’t do rap music!

Dolly Parton

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

Bill Gates

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

Lady Gaga

Really, I don’t like roller coasters.

Kevin Hart

I don’t like to feel like I’m in a club when I’m in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

Taylor Swift

I don’t like drinking, basically.

Lando Norris

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

John Ruskin

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

Mark Zuckerberg

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Winston Churchill

I don’t just listen to rap.

Kevin Gates

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

Virginia Woolf

I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.

Karl Lagerfeld

I never eat salad. I make sure I don’t put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables!

Rihanna

No, I never thought I would like cats.

Karl Lagerfeld

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

John Ruskin

I am not a fan of books.

Kanye West

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.

Matthew McConaughey

I like the language in Proust but not the context.

Karl Lagerfeld

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

Kanye West

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

Kanye West

I don’t like perfumes that are too strong or sweet. I like a fragrance that is earthy and sensual and can be worn at any time.

Angelina Jolie

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

George Lucas

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

Desmond Tutu

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I’m not a chick-flick enthusiast.

Clint Eastwood

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

George Bernard Shaw

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Jane Goodall

I’ve never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.

Tom Brady

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

Angelina Jolie

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

Queen Elizabeth II

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

Elon Musk

I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Brian Eno

I like definitive things.

Jerry Seinfeld

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

Warren Buffett

I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.

Woody Allen

I hate the idea of genres.

Billie Eilish

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Oscar Wilde

I like policy – call me a nerd.

John Kennedy

I’m a really particular person. I want it my way.

Billie Eilish

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

John Steinbeck

I’m not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that’s not me.

Joe Biden

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

Woody Allen

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Voltaire

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

Alice Munro

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Audrey Hepburn

I don’t generally read reviews.

Alice Walker