#instead

In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#before #behind #book #characters #did

This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime. ↗

— Gary Johnson

#better place #country #crime #currently #enforcement

I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#blocks #body #cry #even #frustrated

I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling. ↗

— Naomi Judd

#being #care #culture #daughters #defined

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage. ↗

— Raul Julia

#acting #court #decided #i #instead

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth. ↗

— Norton Juster

#became #book #cities #experience #ford

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing. ↗

— Bob Kane

#batman #ever #facts #get #guessing

I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game. ↗

— Paul Kane

#competition #entered #fiction #game #given

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing. ↗

— Anil Kapoor

#character #focus #focusing #i #i am

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.' ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#bent #bunch #country #democrats #especially