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"My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you."
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"I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing."
"Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs."
"There's no need to blame fate or destiny for a stupid decision."
"To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice."
"Some will, some won't. Look for the ones who will."
"The great thing about life-the most magnificent thing about being these sentient human beings-is that we have been given the power of choice."
"Life is really very simple. In each moment, we have the opportunity to choose between saying "yes or "no, to listen to our intuition, to listen to our true inner voice, the Existential voice within ourselves. When we say "yes, we have contact with Existence and we receive nourishment, love, joy, support and inspiration. When we say "no, we create a separation from life and begin to create dreams and expectations of how it should be. We begin to live in the memories of the past and in the fantasies of the future " as if any other time than here and now really could make us happy and satisfied."
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"I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion."
"I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains."
"A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before."
"My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything."
"Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience."
"My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America."
"Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it."
"At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family."
"But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore."
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