Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
~By Tim Allen ~
Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.
~By Tyne Daly ~
But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.
~By Earl Butz ~
If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.
~By Heath Ledger ~
Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.
~By Brittany Murphy ~
My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.
~By Casey Affleck ~
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 ~
We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
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 ~
My choices were never wrong.
~By Anthony Anderson ~
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 ~
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
~By Basil Hume ~
Life is a matter of really tough choices.
~By Joe Biden ~
In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.
~By Bob Riley ~
The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.
~By Stella Adler ~
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 ~
I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.
~By Andrew Shue ~
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 ~
I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.
~By Rose McGowan ~
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 grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
Leadership demands that we make tough choices.
~By Alan Autry ~
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 ~
Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.
~By Matt Damon ~
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.
~By Byron White ~
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
~By Tom G. Palmer ~
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 ~
We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices.
~By Christine Gregoire ~
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 ~
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.
~By Neve Campbell ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
~By Pat Riley ~
My choices in films are spontaneous.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
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 ~
Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people.
~By Michael Porter ~
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on.
~By Stephen Hopkins ~
I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.
~By Elizabeth Berkley ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.
~By Carly Fiorina ~
Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.
~By Michael F. Easley ~
I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
~By Pamela Stephenson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.
~By Danny Glover ~
Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
~By Chris Christie ~
So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.
~By Sarah Jessica Parker ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
~By John Acton ~
Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
~By Joan Didion ~
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 ~
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 are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
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 ~
Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.
~By Harrison Ford ~
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 ~
I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.
~By Megan Fox ~
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 ~
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 ~
In this business, I don't know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But I've been lucky with my choices. I'm very strong-willed, so I've been able to stick with it. I'm lucky there.
~By January Jones ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.
~By Stockwell Day ~
Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.
~By Shoshana Zuboff ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.
~By Anita Dunn ~
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 ~
War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.
~By Bruce Jackson ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people.
~By John Sununu ~
You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me.
~By Bob Seger ~
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
~By Pat Riley ~
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
~By Thomas Merton ~
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
~By Gloria Estefan ~
Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.
~By Matt Damon ~
I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.
~By Andy Garcia ~
But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.
~By Christian Lacroix ~
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 ~
But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.
~By Danny Glover ~
Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.
~By David Suzuki ~
I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.
~By Darren Aronofsky ~
I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
~By Wayne Newton ~
It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.
~By Taylor Hackford ~
Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
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 ~
I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.
~By Jennifer Connelly ~
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