To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.
~By Ken Burns ~
We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.
~By Leon Kass ~
Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.
~By Niklaus Wirth ~
There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.
~By Stephen Hopkins ~
In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.
~By James Whitcomb Riley ~
Your talent is in your choice.
~By Stella Adler ~
Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.
~By Linda Chavez ~
We have limits to what we can do. At some point there has to be an informed personal choice.
~By Jim Geringer ~
After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit.
~By Terry Bradshaw ~
You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.
~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
~By John Dryden ~
Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.
~By Donna Rice ~
Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking.
~By Mike Royko ~
I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.
~By Alan Keyes ~
I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.
~By David Simon ~
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
~By John Adams ~
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
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 ~
Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.
~By John Hutton ~
No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.
~By Valerie Jarrett ~
I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
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 ~
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?
~By Shimon Peres ~
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 ~
God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
~By Algernon Sydney ~
I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.
~By Michael Fassbender ~
The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.
~By Elena Kagan ~
Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
~By Randall Terry ~
Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors.
~By John Frankenheimer ~
My advice is to make acting your second career choice.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
~By George Eliot ~
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 ~
We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
~By William Glasser ~
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
~By Denis Waitley ~
We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.
~By Marc Maron ~
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 ~
I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.
~By William H. Gray ~
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
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 ~
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
~By Nadia Boulanger ~
The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.
~By Peter R. Grant ~
Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.
~By Arthur Capper ~
My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.
~By Thomas Vilsack ~
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
~By Willie Nelson ~
I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.
~By Jerry Goldsmith ~
Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.
~By Brittany Murphy ~
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
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 ~
I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.
~By Elle Macpherson ~
May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
If our main goal is to connect emotionally, we should want to have as many tools as we possibly can to achieve that goal. The more abilities that we have, the more choices we can make musically.
~By Ken Hill ~
It is tragic that, under a pro-choice administration and a Democratic majority in Congress, harmful anti-choice policy will be the price American women will pay for health care reform.
~By Nancy Northrup ~
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 ~
That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
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 ~
Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.
~By Stan Getz ~
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
~By Margaret Drabble ~
I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice.
~By Michael Aston ~
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.
~By Donald Johanson ~
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 ~
Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
~By William Faulkner ~
If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.
~By Jimmy Fallon ~
I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
~By John C. Hawkes ~
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 ~
I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.
~By Kristen Stewart ~
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 ~
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
~By Harry Browne ~
In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.
~By Bo Bennett ~
I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.
~By Robert B. Parker ~
Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.
~By Joy Page ~
The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
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 ~
I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
~By Wayne Newton ~
We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.
~By Donald Berwick ~
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 ~
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
~By Anita Roddick ~
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
~By Amber Frey ~
Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.
~By John Engler ~
His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice.
~By John Stott ~
Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
~By William Glasser ~
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.
~By Ken Burns ~
The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped.
~By Robert Fritz ~
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.
~By Lee R. Raymond ~
These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect.
~By Tipper Gore ~
It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
I do NOT think that PC gaming is over... it will always be the choice of the gaming enthusiast who is willing to put in the extra effort for a richer, more rewarding experience.
~By Mike Wilson ~
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
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