It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation.
~By Thurston Moore ~
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
~By Jerome S. Bruner ~
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 ~
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
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 ~
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 ~
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
~By Golda Meir ~
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
~By Mark Twain ~
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
~By Tom Brokaw ~
What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.
~By Lois Capps ~
There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth.
~By Rodrigo Rato ~
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 Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
~By Franz Liszt ~
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 ~
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 ~
A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.
~By Edward Sapir ~
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 ~
I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.
~By Cyril Cusack ~
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
~By Manfred Eigen ~
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.
~By Russell Banks ~
Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.
~By Thurston Moore ~
Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia.
~By Nathan Deal ~
Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.
~By Paul Nurse ~
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
~By Graham Greene ~
The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad.
~By Stephen Cohen ~
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
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 ~
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
~By Margot Asquith ~
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.
~By John Walker Lindh ~
Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
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 ~
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 ~
The name of Peru was not known to the natives.
~By William Prescott ~
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 ~
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
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 ~
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
~By Emma Goldman ~
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
~By Abba Eban ~
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 ~
I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different.
~By Glenn Hoddle ~
The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.
~By George W. Bush ~
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
~By William H. Hunt ~
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
~By Dorothy Thompson ~
Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.
~By J. D. Hayworth ~
The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.
~By Stephen Harper ~
Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
~By Page McConnell ~
The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
~By Robert Morley ~
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.
~By Penelope Lively ~
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 ~
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 ~
The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.
~By Jerry Garcia ~
Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives.
~By Raul Grijalva ~
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 ~
For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.
~By John Thorn ~
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
~By William H. Seward ~
Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.
~By Kiana Tom ~
There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
~By Bob Brown ~
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil.
~By Rick Renzi ~
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 ~
I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.
~By John H. Speke ~
We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.
~By Pierce Brosnan ~
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
~By Michael Tippett ~
There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.
~By Marvin Harris ~
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
~By Franz Boas ~
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 ~
First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.
~By Stephen Harper ~
There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative.
~By Joichi Ito ~
When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.
~By Lukas Foss ~
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 ~
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.
~By Virginia Madsen ~
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
~By Alexander Chase ~
While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker.
~By Ben Edwards ~
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 ~
The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.
~By Skeet Ulrich ~
I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.
~By Joan Collins ~
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
~By Edith Sitwell ~
There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
~By Maya Angelou ~
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
~By Audre Lorde ~
Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.
~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 ~
I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
~By Michael Musto ~
While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
~By Calamity Jane ~
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
~By Cesare Pavese ~
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 ~
It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.
~By Richard Neal ~
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.
~By Jared Diamond ~
We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.
~By Howard Stringer ~
Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
~By Janet Reno ~
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