Alternatives Quotes - Page 28

• I was into alternative stuff, but I was also open to a little bit of hard rock and metal, like Guns N' Roses, Metallica.

  Girl Talk

  Gun, Rocks, Rose

  "Random Rules: Gregg Gillis of Girl Talk". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2007.

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• What I was trying to say in that bit, without saying it out loud, is that there were things - you're right, everything is very politicized these days, literally down to what kind of coffee you drink - that I used to fight with people about. And by the way, not just people like Republicans and Christians, but liberal friends of mine and very radical left-wing types, and alternative, indie types.

  Patton Oswalt

  Christian, Coffee, Fighting

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.

  Billy Corgan

  Tattoo, Hair Metal, Guy

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• When alternative music - which is supposed to be the standard-bearer of where white rock is headed - becomes either too cute or too manufactured, that's just really not good.

  Billy Corgan

  Cute, Rocks, White

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• I was playing heavy metal when I was 18. I had to evolve out of that into an alternative consciousness about what it meant to change the way I played guitar, and the kind of songs, and the subject matter, and singing about child abuse, and all this stuff. I had to come from somewhere, and I had to take chances to do that.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Children, Guitar

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• People are fed up - and I think quite rightfully so. But what are they proposing as an alternative to just being upset or feeling disillusioned or abandoned? That kind of protest movement really needs to happen on a much bigger scale, but there needs to be a clearer message.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Thinking, People, Upset

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.

  Edward Norton

  Lazy, Moments, Elegance

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• In Israel, it always meant - and a lot of that is still true - there was only one kind of man you could be, there were no alternatives, no options. If you were from a good family, you were supposed to be a successful soldier at 18 and be strong, and prepared to protect your wife and family, or family and children, and be prepared to die for your country.

  Eytan Fox

  Country, Strong, Children

  "Exploring Masculinity and Modern Views of Israeli’s, Eytan Fox Discusses 'Walk on Water'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. March 3, 2005.

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• I sincerely believe patriarchy to be at the root of all of our social diseases and feminism, it's antidote, to be a prerequisite to peace on earth. feminism provides an alternative way of thinking and structuring things that focuses on and prioritizes relationships and de-emphasizes hierarchy, separation and domination.

  Ani DiFranco

  Believe, Thinking, Roots

  Interview with Mary Ann Rossoni, get-ri.com. September 1, 2015.

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• There is no alternative. A Democrat is a Republican is a big businessman, and we're all consumers instead of citizens. It just manifests in the culture, in the music, in the art. I feel a little panicky about it.

  Ani DiFranco

  Art, Culture, Citizens

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. March 13, 2002.

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• I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.

  Linus Torvalds

  Attitude, Writing, Care

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• While I may not get any money from Linux, I get a huge personal satisfaction from having written something that people really enjoy using, and that people find to be the best alternative for their needs.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Satisfaction, Linux

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient...allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery where they believe themselves to be protected from any challenges and demands for evidence.

  Edzard Ernst

  Believe, Challenges, Labels

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• You want to do what you can while you are on this earth. Otherwise, the alternative is to go shopping.

  Saul Landau

  Shopping, Earth, Want

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• America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.

  Winston Churchill

  America, Firsts, Exhausted

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• Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and better options for solving problems.

  Andrew Weil

  World, Problem, Models

  Andrew Weil (2004). “The Natural Mind: A Revolutionary Approach to the Drug Problem”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen.

  Carl Sagan

  People, Mind, Opinion

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.550, Ballantine Books

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• I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no honorable alternative save to enforce it and I am enforcing it, to the furious rage of the saloon keepers, and of many good people too; for which I am sorry.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Sorry, Sunday

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “Letters”

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• I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Jobs, Musician, Information

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• It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State

  Winston Churchill

  Powerful, States, Employers

  Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

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• The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

  Milton Friedman

  Liberty, Excuse, Destruction

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• The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

  James Gleick

  Doubt, Authority, Century

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• I'm also alternative because of Canada - there's something romantic about being Canadian. We're a relatively unpopulated, somewhat civilized, and clean and resourceful country. I always push the fact that I'm Canadian.

  K. D. Lang

  Country, Canada, Facts

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• Why is everything that's good for our bodies, our communities, our world, and our planet called the 'alternative'? That means everything bad for us is the accepted norm.

  Julia Hill

  Mean, Our World, Community

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• If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.

  Deepak Chopra

  Class, Medicine, Needs

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