I was never able to convince myself that there was a cost-free alternative course, as from 1961, or that any of the different strategies since proposed, especially those involving stronger military action, would have made sense.
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.
I remember, as a kid, my dad always told me, "Getting older beats the alternative." Although, now my father actually is the alternative, so I don't know what he would say. He's completely dead.
'Alternative facts' is really one of the better things that's come out in a long time. 'Alternative facts?' It's brilliant! Really? Alternative facts? There are two different realities?
I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.
My aim is to project that the BJP is not only an alternative but a better alternative to the Congress.
There is an alternative. It's an old alternative. It's not for everybody. It's only for people who are smart, limited market. It's enlightenment.
Activists can improve their alternative media success by embracing alternative currencies like Bitcoin.
Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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There was some real bad alternative - 'alternative' - stuff that came out in the '90s that's completely cringe-worthy.
I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.
I have always felt that the rise of what became known as alternative comedy was born out of the loins of the alternative theatre movement.
Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.