Cocaine and crack are essentially the same thing. Cocaine is a middle-class drug. Crack is a poor person's drug, which carries a felony conviction for possession. And once you get this felony conviction, which given that the whole community is pretty much strung out on it, you become basically sidelined into an alternative kind of lifestyle. You become completely marginalized. You can't get public housing, you can't get a lot of jobs, you can't vote. You have a real problem doing anything to get you out of the rut that you're in. You become basically a non - person.
You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
. . . desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers
I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.
Caring too much could be dangerous; I saw that now. But the alternative was no better.
All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action.
When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen.
The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.
The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy.
There's so many things happening with computers and what-not, where we may be able to live until 150 and even longer, but if the planet's not here for us to live on it, if we burn ourselves out from global warming and everything else, if we don't figure that out, if we don't figure out an alternative form of energy, I think we're in big, fat trouble.
Crazy is good. The alternative is normal.
There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth.
An honest money system is the only alternative.
Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and better options for solving problems.
For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
I think a lot of education has to be involved. If they would have alternative items, so that, say, for a dollar more, you can get breakfast tacos stuffed with egg whites, and olive oil, and avocado; not guacamole, because they put the salt in it. Just ask for fresh avocado slices, and you could have that.
Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.