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Instead of me chasing my dreams, my dreams are chasing me.

—Charmaine J. Forde

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Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns through termination as an executive officer.

—George Zimmer

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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it’s really hard to finish a novel.

—Laini Taylor

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The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

—Woody Allen

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We don’t know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.

—Jill Tarter

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When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.

—Anthony J. D'Angelo

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It’s not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

—Mary Astor

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Sometimes, like in ‘Invisible Monsters,’ I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence.

—Chuck Palahniuk

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It’s interesting that instead of having to get tighter and more restricted for a collaboration, strangely enough, from the beginning, we’ve actually been more confident that we could handle this.

—Robert Asprin

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We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.

—Grace Napolitano

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Latinos come from different countries, and they tend to segregate with only their country instead of embracing all the other countries, because in reality, all the Latinos are going through the same experiences of discrimination...

—Andrea Navedo

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If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we’d be a lot better off.

—Mary Badham

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Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.

—Dave Anderson

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Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

—Ville Valo

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Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it’s the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a twist, like lemon ricotta pancakes or bacon that’s baked instead of fried.

—Hugh Jackman

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We should feel grateful instead of entitled. We have a moral obligation to give back.

—Bill Courtney

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The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it’s my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.

—Jennifer Aniston

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I’ll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I’m recording. If I break one I’ll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.

—Eddie Van

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I think you’re a better comedian when you’re in the moment and you’re kind of reacting to what’s happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization.

—Scott Aukerman

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I think it’s critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.

—Malin Akerman

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Grace is not something one possesses; instead, grace is something one receives.

—Bill Courtney

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Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

—Johann Georg

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Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you’d know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant ‘Da da da da’ instead of ‘Boom boom boom boom!’ Who knows?

—Eddie Van

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At the end of Season Four of ‘Mr. Show,’ instead of doing another season, everyone just thought they wanted to go and do a movie. Kind of like Monty Python. Monty Python went right into...

—Scott Aukerman

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I prefer having sex with myself rather than with someone who wants something instead.

—M.F. Moonzajer

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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

—A.R. Rammons

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It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

—Oriana Fallaci

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Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?

—Jami Attenberg

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I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

—Rip Taylor

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Instead of crying and begging for your love, you can stand and fight for it.

—M.F. Moonzajer

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I would rather die than do a play – 10 years in solitary instead.

—Alan Arkin

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I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

—Julianna Baggott

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The country will also need ‘new forms of social welfare’ instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.

—Giorgio Napolitano

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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

—Thomas Jefferson

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The Mullahs and monks, they must worship you instead of empty rooms.

—M.F. Moonzajer

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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

—Andrew Vachss

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Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it.

—Roman Jakobson

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I have long accepted that an art fair is not a perfectly curated museum show. Instead, it’s more like a brightly lit bazaar, where art is haggled over and handled like any other commodity.

—Elisabeth von

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Ignoring negative things that need to be changed is destructive and does nothing to alleviate negativity. Instead, we should focus on the way we’re treating other people in our brief interactions with them.

—Tom Rath

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I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first...

—Leo Baekeland

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It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is...

—Archibald Alexander

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I see so many people in the gym just slinging weight around. You can accomplish more if you squeeze the reps out in perfect form, instead of going big and trying to kill it every...

—Sean Faris

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I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.

—Gregg Allman

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Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.

—John James Audobon

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AlmostInsteadSpent
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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

—Brigham Young

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Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions.

—Shawn Ashmore

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We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.

—Don Yaeger

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FocusInsteadStrive
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Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

—Mortimer Adler

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I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.

—Alan Parsons

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My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

—Tullian Tchividjian

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