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Choice Quotes
"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."
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"We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice."
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"Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice."
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"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."
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"Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make."
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"There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start."
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"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."
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"After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland."
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"If you're just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow."
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"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."
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"I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes."
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"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."
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"All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right."
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"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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"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."
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"To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice."
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"It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world."
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"People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing."
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"Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty."
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"There is no banquet but some dislike something in it."
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"We must believe in free will, we have no choice."
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"Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years."
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"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."
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"The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie."
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"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."
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"I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear not a reality of my journey."
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"When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality."
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"And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents."
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"I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it."
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"There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving."
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"The comparison to the old world is something to get excited about. We have the potential for more choice and innovation, and a different regulatory environment that doesn't place as much weight on economic regulations of terms and conditions."
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