Instead Quotes
6491 Instead quotes by 3769 unique authors
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We all have personalities, but in football a lot of times you don't talk about that because you want to focus more on the grit…
— Dhani Jones
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I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.
— Vivica Fox
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
— Sigmund Freud
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
— Sigmund Freud
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. - you fill…
— Al Franken
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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when…
— Sigmund Freud
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Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group…
— Milton Friedman
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I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It…
— Diane von Furstenberg
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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
— Judy Garland
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself…
— Ina Garten
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Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement…
— Ina Garten
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When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.
— Shakti Gawain
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Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
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The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.
— Seth Godin
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One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
— Daniel Goleman
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I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in…
— Al Gore
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When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.
— Al Gore
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I'd like to have a kid, but I'd probably get a Frank Sinatra Jr. instead of a Gilbert Gottfried Jr. I'd totally screw up like…
— Gilbert Gottfried
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I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in…
— Temple Grandin
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With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a…
— Jennifer Granholm
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In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be…
— Brian Greene
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It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being…
— Grimes
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Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
— Lewis Grizzard
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I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch…
— Matt Groening
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I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the…
— Cathy Guisewite
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