#instead

And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on. ↗

— William Labov

#clear #dialects #different #divisions #each

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#college #going #how #i #instead

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 more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#away #choose #elevated #every #every time

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#bill #class #congress #deductions #deficit

But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did. ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#because #being #character #did #doing

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world. ↗

— Yuan T. Lee

#become #cars #citizens #competing #destroy

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#comes #concentration #copyright #danger #feudalism

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be. ↗

— Judith Light

#instead #into #meant #meant to be #ourselves

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. ↗

— Astrid Lindgren

#although #been #being #children #enormous

Instead of making people victims of people who are successful, we should be telling people, 'Look, you are having a hard time, I feel bad for you. Let's look at what you're doing, let's teach you how to succeed. Let's give you the tools to succeed as opposed to turning everybody into victims. ↗

— Jon Lovitz

#doing #everybody #feel #give #hard