To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
~By Carolyn Heilbrun ~
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 ~
We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
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 ~
If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
~By Harold Wilson ~
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 ~
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
~By Maya Angelou ~
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
~By Penelope Lively ~
Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.
~By Barbara Coloroso ~
All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
~By Samuel Rutherford ~
The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
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 ~
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
~By Robert Heller ~
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 ~
If you're just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.
~By Heath Ledger ~
Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things?
~By Ken Mehlman ~
I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.
~By Mercedes Ruehl ~
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.
~By Anthony Comstock ~
There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
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 ~
It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you.
~By Norma McCorvey ~
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 ~
Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
~By Bea Arthur ~
You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.
~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~
We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
~By Archibald MacLeish ~
I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.
~By Robert Morgan ~
Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.
~By Donald E. Westlake ~
Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.
~By Audrey Tautou ~
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 ~
People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to go to school, marry whoever they want to marry regardless of what their complexion is and so forth.
~By Ed Smith ~
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 ~
I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.
~By William H. Gray ~
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 ~
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
~By James Allen ~
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 ~
And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him... by investing in themselves, people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare.
~By Theodore William Schultz ~
While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place.
~By James Green Somerville ~
No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.
~By Richard Harris ~
We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
~By Carl Levin ~
Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.
~By Ellen Barkin ~
People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.
~By Juliana Hatfield ~
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 ~
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
~By Spiro T. Agnew ~
To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.
~By Tom G. Palmer ~
I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
~By Ruth Bader Ginsburg ~
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 think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.
~By Peter Gabriel ~
Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.
~By Shoshana Zuboff ~
I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.
~By Richard Price ~
She had said one time, make a choice and do it like Hercules. So if that is all of what is being offered, the idea is to always do it like Hercules and I always followed her advise and now I'm here talking to you.
~By Harvey Keitel ~
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 ~
I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.
~By Mary Stuart Masterson ~
Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice.
~By Donnie Wahlberg ~
When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
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 ~
You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
Francisco Garcia could have been a high draft choice last year, probably in the 20s. He's the best wing player I've ever coached. But he's done it the right way. He knew he had to work on his body to become a good pro. When he goes into the pros, he'll be physically ready.
~By Rick Pitino ~
As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.
~By Charles Schumer ~
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
~By Gloria Estefan ~
While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice.
~By Gresham Barrett ~
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 ~
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 ~
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
~By Jean Rostand ~
From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice.
~By Bill Mumy ~
The Fed chairmanship is not the kind of job where you want to surprise everyone with your choice of a total unknown. You don't want to surprise Wall Street.
~By David Jones ~
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 ~
Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
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 ~
In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.
~By Margaret Weis ~
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 ~
If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
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 ~
It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.
~By Leo Kottke ~
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
~By Annie Leibovitz ~
The difficulty in life is the choice.
~By George A. Moore ~
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
~By Deepak Chopra ~
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 ~
Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.
~By Tom G. Palmer ~
One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
Your range of available choices - right now - is limitless.
~By Frederick C. Frieseke ~
We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions.
~By Eric Cantor ~
I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.
~By Huey Lewis ~
If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
~By Buddy Hackett ~
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 ~
The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe.
~By John Prescott ~
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
~By Theophile Gautier ~
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
~By Jane Rule ~
Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice.
~By Stevie Nicks ~
I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.
~By Ezra Cornell ~
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 ~
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 ~
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