I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.
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.
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.
Cigars are no safe alternative act.
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.
A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
The better alternative to fighting a guy, go have sex with his girlfriend. That's how you knock a dude out!
The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing for myself - and at the end of the day, I do it because I feel like I have to. So when I'm recording or writing, I don't have other people in mind.
Because of the control of the media by corporate wealth, the discovery of truth depends on an alternative media, such as small radio stations, networks, programs. Also, alternative newspapers, which exist all over the country. Also, cable TV programs, which are not dependent on commercial advertising. Also, the internet, which can reach millions of people by-passing the conventional media.
If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or two. One of life's great pleasures is letting go of a previously cherished idea. Then you're free to look for new ones. What part of your idea are you in love with? What would happen if you kissed it goodbye?
The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.
If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.
Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
Adult stem cells have shown great potential and have effectively helped patients. Another alternative is cord-blood stem cells. These are a neglected resource that could be used to treat a diverse body of people.