Instead Quotes
6491 Instead quotes by 3769 unique authors
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This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law…
— Gary Johnson
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
— Samuel Johnson
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But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city…
— Barbara Jordan
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I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
— Bil Keane
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Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the…
— Helen Keller
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Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease,…
— John F. Kennedy
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My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that…
— Nicole Kidman
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President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or…
— Alveda King
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After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting…
— Gustav Klimt
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Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to…
— Donald Knuth
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I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
— Dean Koontz
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Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future…
— Jonathan Kozol
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
— Barbara Kruger
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There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting…
— Mike Krzyzewski
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I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad…
— Mike Krzyzewski
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Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or…
— Charles Kuralt
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
— Karolina Kurkova
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Eventually there are going to be chips in brains. Imagine if you could just buy knowledge and download it into your head instead of having…
— Olga Kurylenko
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A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world,…
— Talib Kweli
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I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place…
— Anne Lamott
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Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of…
— Jaron Lanier
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Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this…
— Jaron Lanier
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I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip,…
— Jaron Lanier
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The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
— Christopher Lasch
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If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
— William Law
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