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Choice Quotes


"It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions."


"Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice."


"I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location."


"All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right."


"I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution."


"Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice."


"When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality."


"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."


"The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions."


"'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices."


"I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information."


"Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make."


"There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start."


"The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie."


"After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland."


"2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation."


"There is no banquet but some dislike something in it."


"And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit."


"Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity."


"Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs."


"I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice."


"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."


"'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."


"The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice."


"Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times."


"The look in his eyes turned a little wild. "That's the only reason I'm letting you go. If I had any choice--""You do," she said "Wed can all sit here and let him die. Or you can let Eve go on her wild-ass rescue mission and get herself killed. Or you can let sweet, calm, reasonable Claire go do some talking."He shook his head. His long, elegant hands, which looked so at home wrapped around a guitar, closed into fists. "Guess that means there's no choice.""Not really," Claire agreed. "I was kind of lying about that choice thing."


"A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything."


"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."



"Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started."


"Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty."


"The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she liked my amusing facial expression."


"Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done."


"Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give."


"In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results."


"The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe."


"We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts."


"I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place."


"But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable."
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