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There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta rap.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about art, magic

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.

Quote by Gerry Adams about fight, blind, past, rightness

In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.

Quote by Gerry Adams about power

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

Quote by George W. Bush

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Quote by Winston Churchill about war, work, life

We developed at that time also stochastic resonance as an alternative to pulse FT spectroscopy employing binary pseudo-random noise sequences for broadband excitation, correlating input and output noise.

Quote by Richard Ernst about time

I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.

Quote by Anjelica Huston about film

Having all your body parts intact and functioning at the end of the day beats the alternative.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, body, end, day

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to...

Quote by Harry Oppenheimer about nation, opinion, magic, failure

I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

Quote by Brad Paisley about music, rocks, things, people

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about need

Moreover, the structure of a theoretical system tells us what alternatives are open in the possible answers to a given question.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about question

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.

Quote by Alexandra Paul about people, habits, change

Things improved a little bit in the '80s, there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about things

When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.

Quote by Shimon Peres about opinion, things

Whenever they gave me another alternative world, often better, I refused. Who can escape the hell in their own nothingness others? After no escape from their own disillusionment. So I got to my building from ruin, my own world.

Quote by Gabriel Petru Baetan about world, hell

My father taught me two things about bills; always query them and never pay till you have no alternative.

Quote by Miles Beresford Kington about humor, things