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Choice Quotes
"If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow."
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"There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start."
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"I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice."
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"We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to."
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"There are plenty of lesbians in Hollywood, but they're not out. And that's their choice, but I can't do that, it's too important to me."
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"I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system."
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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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"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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"I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice."
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"There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced."
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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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"Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment."
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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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"A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything."
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"You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice."
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"It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice."
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"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."
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"The road ahead is not some predetermined path that I am forced to trod, but it is a rich byway that I can help create."
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"We got where we are because our choices mapped the route and paved the road."
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"I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made."
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"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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"You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house."
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"I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970."
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"If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here."
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"Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs."
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"And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering."
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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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"I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices."
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"I made my choice to be in Ferrari. It is not easy because it is important for a man to have satisfaction. And for me to get the satisfaction I want means getting results."
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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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"I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair."
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"Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices."
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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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"The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie."
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"The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice."
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