#instead

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones. ↗

— Bill Forsyth

#business #decisions #emotional #instead #interesting

I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#basics #down #his #how #i

Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies. ↗

— Fred W. Friendly

#bellies #commodity #instead #just #like

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#desire #fails #fragments #instead #longer

I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#animal #assume #conceived #ecological #environment

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead. ↗

— Witold Gombrowicz

#go #i #instead #lectures #more

They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know. ↗

— Uta Hagen

#censorship #chamberlain #had #i #idiotic

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force. ↗

— Sheikh Hasina

#barbarism #firing #force #government #indiscriminate

Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs. ↗

— Nancy Johnson

#big #bulk #center #cyclist #doing

They could have been nice to me instead of treating me like an idiot. ↗

— Norma McCorvey

#could #idiot #instead #like #me