Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
Todd's mother had several children by different fathers, and Todd [Willingham] had been abandoned in California. . . . He's a good-looking man. He was a witty man, you know? Funny, caring. He wasn't arrogant, but he was kind of set in his ways. If he thought something, it was one way. You could show him an alternative, but he was still going to stick by his particular view. But I could see how to women he could be a very charming, good-looking guy, especially when he was younger.
Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.
I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but in the other alternative we should eventually lose both freedom and sobriety.
If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.
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.
Today, there is a new focus on public values, the need for broad-based movements for solidarity, and alternative conceptions of politics, democracy and justice.
I have periods where I listen to regular rap, Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne. The next day I might have some Christian alternative music. The next day I have on some dance music. It all varies what I listen to.
Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
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.
The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred other patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse, where we could be "supervised. "
Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.
Caring too much could be dangerous; I saw that now. But the alternative was no better.
The alternative to discipline is disaster
Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.
The most depressing thing is the political slogan: there is no alternative. But there is.
Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods.
For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary. . . A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist who is against surgery even when the alternative is the crippling or death of the patient.