Instead Quotes
6491 Instead quotes by 3769 unique authors
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Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for…
— John Cage
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If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will be the most…
— Judy Blume
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I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.
— David Blaine
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I like to get Honey Combs, and Apple Jax, and Captain Crunch Berries and mix them all together, but I'm freak and I use water…
— Mark Hoppus
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The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost…
— Evo Morales
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Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever…
— David Foster Wallace
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I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a…
— Jeanette Winterson
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You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but…
— Robert Greene
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Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, and bitterness is always a poison. It keeps your pain…
— Lee Strobel
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We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at…
— Susan Mann
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There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your…
— Marie Dressler
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Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.
— Bill Gates
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Instead of dumping all my money on an independent film that nobody would watch and most people would make fun of behind my back, I…
— Daniel Tosh
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War, and more wars, are helping Government to siphon the earnings of its people into its treasury for its own selfish purpose, which is to…
— Walter Russell
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What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and errors…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that…
— Leopold Kronecker
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Ive always loved when girls carry their wallets as a clutch instead of a bag.
— Alexander Wang
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Bitcoin is not “unregulated”. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted.
— Andreas Antonopoulos
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I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is…
— Dianne Feinstein
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Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it…
— Rose O'Neal Greenhow
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Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to…
— Andrea Bocelli
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It doesn't matter if you're a size 2 or 22, you can be healthy as long as you're taking care of your body, working out,…
— Ashley Graham
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All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is…
— Julia Cameron
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