Alternatives Quotes - Page 23

• The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Couple, Taken, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

  Herbert Read

  Country, Believe, Numbers

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• I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.

  K. D. Lang

  Fall, Home, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.

  Maj Sjowall

  Girl, Attitude, Growing Up

  "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us with a never-ending task which requires not only competence but also spiritual discernment. Yet this is precisely the task which we must assume, even at the risk of being vague on specifics. The alternative is to compromise basic themes of authentic Christianity.

  Albert M. Wolters

  Spiritual, Risk, Tasks

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• There is an alternative. It's an old alternative. It's not for everybody. It's only for people who are smart, limited market. It's enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Smart, Buddhism

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• The alternative to discipline is disaster

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Discipline, Disaster

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• Right now the producers of 'Modern Family' have no idea how many people watch our show each week on all platforms, and nobody seems to want to tell us. If a disproportionate number of any show's viewers watch in alternative ways, then, under the current system, that show may not appear to be as strong as it actually is.

  Steven Levitan

  Strong, Ideas, Numbers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Challenges, Done, Source

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• Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the moment it's born.

  Jello Biafra

  Inspiration, Passion, Inspire

  "Jello Biafra: 'Obama owes Occupy big time'". Interview with Dom Lawson, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2013.

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• I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.

  John Legend

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Soul

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues-by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

  John Galt

  Suicidal, Animal, Men

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• I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.

  Mario Vazquez

  Latin, Kids, Hip Hop

  "'Idol' dropout Mario Vazquez says 'everything is falling into place'" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. August 23, 2005.

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• Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and lead to unforeseen pitfalls down the road. Noam Wasserman uses vivid anecdotes and deep research to expertly outline the key early choices that define a startup, making The Founder's Dilemmas an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error.

  Chad Hurley

  Real, Impact, Errors

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• The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.

  James Joll

  Taken, Decision, Political

  James Joll (1960). “Intellectuals in politics: three biographical essays”

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• In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which governs survival in war as in life ... To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it; the best chance of overcoming such obstruction is to have a plan that can be easily varied to fit the circumstances met.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Law

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• A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist.

  Ivan Illich

  Hands, Choices, Style

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• And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense-I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

  Jimmy Carter

  Common Sense, Car, Asking

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

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• I have no problem with a war for oil-if we accompany it with a real program for energy conservation. But when we tell the world we couldn't care less about climate change, that we feel entitled to drive whatever big cars we feel like, that we feel entitled to consume however much oil we like, the message we send is that a war for oil in the gulf is not a war to protect the world's right to economic survival-but our right to indulge. Now that will be seen as immoral.

  Thomas Friedman

  Real, War, Oil

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• Just because we can ship organic lettuce from the Salinas Valley, or organic cut flowers from Peru, doesn't mean we should do it, not if we're really serious about energy and seasonality and bioregionalism.

  Joel Salatin

  Flower, Mean, Cutting

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• If the material consumption of a fraction of humanity is already harming the planet, is there an alternative path that enables all of humanity to live more lightly upon the Earth while experiencing a higher quality of life?

  Duane Elgin

  Humanity, Quality, Earth

  Duane Elgin (2010). “Voluntary Simplicity Second Revised Edition: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• The way I see it people don't do what they want to do often enough. They just do some alternative which they'd kind of like to do, which isn't the same thing at all, and as a result that thing isn't enough and they end up depressed and annoyed with everyone else around them.

  Will Davis

  People, Annoyed, Want

  Will Davis (2010). “My Side of the Story”, p.114, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.

  Stephen Hawking

  Doe, Deny, Offers

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• Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Ideas, Battle

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.40, Penguin

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• It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.

  Wendell Berry

  Men, Thinking, Slave

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