In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
~By Alberto Moravia ~
A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
~By Mary Tyler Moore ~
Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.
~By Bill Mumy ~
No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.
~By David Copperfield ~
But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.
~By Jonathan Coe ~
Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.
~By Ali A. Saleh ~
The kids like to get pictures of me for their parents. They know how proud I am of them-they have a lot more to worry about than my stardom. They are trying to make good choices for their own lives, but this gives them a little fun. They are part of my family.
~By Mark Goddard ~
I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great.
~By Lyle Lovett ~
We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
~By William Glasser ~
It's a fantasy that we could have a president who could actually make choices based on what's right, rather than having to weigh the political fallout. But that's sort of what we're showing. And you can dream.
~By Geena Davis ~
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with.
~By Peter Singer ~
I'd like to do something a little different. Something a little less intense. I'm not sure what it's going to be yet. For the first time in my life, it's great to have choices, but I think I have to be very careful in choosing the right next project.
~By Kristanna Loken ~
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
~By Penelope Lively ~
Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.
~By Michael F. Easley ~
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.
~By Mary Lou Retton ~
I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You're the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision.
~By Cicely Tyson ~
I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.
~By Huey Lewis ~
The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.
~By Anthony Comstock ~
I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.
~By Ben Shahn ~
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
~By Jean Rostand ~
I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.
~By Elizabeth Berkley ~
Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.
~By Jane D. Hull ~
I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.
~By Marlee Matlin ~
'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
~By Jackie Weaver ~
One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.
~By Mike DeWine ~
I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.
~By Andy Garcia ~
To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.
~By Alec Baldwin ~
There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.
~By Peter Weir ~
What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.
~By John Corigliano ~
Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
~By Randall Terry ~
The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
~By J. G. Holland ~
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
~By Robert Fritz ~
No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.
~By Neve Campbell ~
Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me.
~By Kyra Sedgwick ~
This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?
~By Leelee Sobieski ~
There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.
~By Charles Kennedy ~
People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
~By Johnny Depp ~
I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.
~By Tom Cruise ~
It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
~By Alfred A. Montapert ~
One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.
~By Star Jones ~
Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
~By Bea Arthur ~
Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
~By David Lee Roth ~
I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.
~By Rose McGowan ~
I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.
~By Lacey Chabert ~
But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.
~By Danny Glover ~
At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time.
~By Mike McCready ~
And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.
~By John Engler ~
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
~By Robert Orben ~
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
~By Basil Hume ~
My choices were never wrong.
~By Anthony Anderson ~
So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.
~By Sarah Jessica Parker ~
Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point.
~By Josh Lucas ~
The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.
~By Crystal Chappell ~
Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.
~By John Mica ~
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
~By Michael Porter ~
I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.
~By Winona Ryder ~
In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.
~By Donna Rice ~
I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.
~By Sharron Angle ~
If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.
~By John Gardner ~
You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing.
~By John Sayles ~
Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people.
~By Michael Porter ~
We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
~By Carl Levin ~
I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.
~By Joe Morton ~
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
~By Pat Riley ~
Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
~By Alfred A. Montapert ~
Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.
~By Shoshana Zuboff ~
People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
~By Michael Crapo ~
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
~By John Updike ~
Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.
~By Colin Firth ~
Also, it was a cultural moment that wasn't being represented in terms of women who were successful and had choices they didn't have before. They needed a show that they can watch that they felt like represented them.
~By Kristin Davis ~
Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.
~By Michael Mann ~
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
~By Robert Foster Bennett ~
Your range of available choices - right now - is limitless.
~By Frederick C. Frieseke ~
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
~By Buddy Hackett ~
Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.
~By Lindsey Graham ~
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
~By Tom G. Palmer ~
Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.
~By Brittany Murphy ~
Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
~By Joy Page ~
There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
~By Buzz Aldrin ~
It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.
~By Lori Loughlin ~
You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.
~By Andrew Niccol ~
You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.
~By Andy Garcia ~
By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper bills.
~By Melissa Bean ~
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.
~By Nina Simone ~
So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.
~By Fred Thompson ~
After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.
~By Robin Wright Penn ~
Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!
~By Ruth Buzzi ~
Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.
~By Jose Serrano ~
People should be allowed the freedom to make their own choices. They should be able to buy or not buy porn and be monogamous or promiscuous as they see fit.
~By Chester Brown ~
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