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.
~By Bob Odenkirk ~
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.
~By Terri Windling ~
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
~By Charles Eastman ~
If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.
~By Charles Krauthammer ~
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.
~By Gerald McRaney ~
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
~By Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~
The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.
~By Richard Neal ~
There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.
~By David Carradine ~
I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.
~By Ron Carter ~
We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.
~By Ron Kind ~
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.
~By Mary Wesley ~
Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.
~By Dennis Banks ~
It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil.
~By Virgil Goode ~
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
~By Miriam Makeba ~
Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
~By Milton Friedman ~
Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.
~By Noah Taylor ~
We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.
~By Rick Renzi ~
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.
~By Gerry Adams ~
These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire.
~By Henry Hudson ~
So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!
~By Eddie Izzard ~
The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.
~By Harry Oppenheimer ~
Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.
~By Rick Renzi ~
Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they're not going to mess with anything you do, so it can be very imaginative.
~By John Sayles ~
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
~By James Thurber ~
As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.
~By J. D. Hayworth ~
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.
~By Robert Hewison ~
This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.
~By Jared Diamond ~
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.
~By Jared Diamond ~
A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.
~By George Stigler ~
You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.
~By Arthur Scargill ~
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
~By Alexander Chase ~
Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
~By Toni Morrison ~
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.
~By William Pennington ~
In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
~By Anita Diament ~
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
~By Buffy Sainte-Marie ~
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.
~By Richard Neal ~
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
~By George Santayana ~
The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.
~By Lindsey Graham ~
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~
But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.
~By Georg Solti ~
I do like beer, but lately I've started drinking non-alcoholic beer and I like the taste of it and I don't get the alcohol, so that's a good alternative also.
~By Mike Ditka ~
That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
One of Netscape's main attractions to customers from Day One is that we provide alternatives. And that's cherished by many customers - certainly not all.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.
~By Dennis Banks ~
I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.
~By Meat Loaf ~
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
~By Winston Churchill ~
In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.
~By Gerry Adams ~
People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.
~By Imran Khan ~
I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.
~By Brad Paisley ~
I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.
~By William Wiley ~
I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.
~By Terri Windling ~
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
~By Maurice Chevalier ~
Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that it's right.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
~By Gore Vidal ~
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
~By Robert Frank ~
I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.
~By Jamie Zawinski ~
The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.
~By Rick Renzi ~
What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.
~By Carly Fiorina ~
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.
~By Morris Raphael Cohen ~
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.
~By Richard King ~
While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
~By Calamity Jane ~
Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s.
~By Harvey Pekar ~
The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.
~By Alexandra Paul ~
The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.
~By Skeet Ulrich ~
Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.
~By Howard Stringer ~
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
~By Jim Harrison ~
I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.
~By Patton Oswalt ~
Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.
~By Leonard Maltin ~
Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
~By Richard Francis Burton ~
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
~By Golda Meir ~
This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.
~By William Bligh ~
If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.
~By Rick Renzi ~
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
~By Franz Boas ~
The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.
~By John Baldacci ~
Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.
~By Hudson Stuck ~
I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.
~By Robert Atkins ~
It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.
~By Joe Slovo ~
If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.
~By Lewis H. Lapham ~
I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.
~By Sally Kempton ~
And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.
~By Juice Newton ~
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.
~By Matt Groening ~
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
~By Michael Tippett ~
I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses.
~By William Bligh ~
If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
~By Gary Oldman ~
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