And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.
~By John Engler ~
Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.
~By Boris Spassky ~
I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
~By John C. Hawkes ~
The propensity to do good things is a choice.
~By Shaun Cassidy ~
Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
~By Solomon Burke ~
If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.
~By Heath Ledger ~
Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
~By Tatyana Ali ~
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 ~
I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.
~By Michael Caine ~
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 ~
The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.
~By Terence Fisher ~
I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
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 ~
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
~By James Beattie ~
I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice.
~By Calista Flockhart ~
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 ~
They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.
~By John Boehner ~
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
~By Stephen Covey ~
It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.
~By Harry A. Blackmun ~
What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
~By Fiona Apple ~
For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.
~By Al Goldstein ~
You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.
~By John Clare ~
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
~By Brigham Young ~
The lanes and streets of the city being set out, the choice of sites for the convenience and use of the state remains to be decided on; for sacred edifices, for the forum, and for other public buildings.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.
~By Koichi Tanaka ~
From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.
~By Donald Kagan ~
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 ~
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 ~
We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less.
~By Eric Cantor ~
There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.
~By Stephen Hopkins ~
We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.
~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
~By George Will ~
I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican.
~By James Denton ~
I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.
~By Sandra Bernhard ~
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
~By Richard Bach ~
The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.
~By James Hillman ~
I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.
~By Jeremy Renner ~
Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.
~By Amy Irving ~
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
~By Pat Riley ~
I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and I want people to call me William - for now.
~By Prince William ~
I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end.
~By Edward Dmytryk ~
All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.
~By Judd Gregg ~
Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin.
~By Michael Bloomberg ~
Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea.
~By John Zorn ~
After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.
~By Christian Slater ~
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
~By Ben Jonson ~
So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.
~By Daniel Nathans ~
In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country.
~By Rick Renzi ~
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.
~By Phil Hartman ~
This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.
~By Paul Ryan ~
For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.
~By Meir Kahane ~
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
~By Tony Blair ~
When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.
~By Kim Wilde ~
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 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 ~
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
~By William James ~
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice.
~By Roger Wicker ~
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
~By Thomas Merton ~
Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
~By Randal Kleiser ~
We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.
~By Marc Maron ~
I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
~By Woody Allen ~
My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
~By Camille Paglia ~
And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don't want us in your community, that's your choice, but don't say it's because of wages.
~By Lee Scott ~
All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President.
~By John Sergeant Wise ~
I think that certainly my choices empower me.
~By Kyra Sedgwick ~
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
~By Harrison Ford ~
I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.
~By Sandra Bullock ~
We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.
~By Tim Burton ~
At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.
~By Walter Rudolf Hess ~
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 ~
Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice.
~By Donnie Wahlberg ~
I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
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 ~
'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.
~By Howard Stern ~
As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music.
~By Tom Glazer ~
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 ~
First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
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 ~
Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
~By Alice Koller ~
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
~By William Glasser ~
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 ~
I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.
~By Peter Sarsgaard ~
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