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Choice Quotes
"I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do."
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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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"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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"It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency."
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"We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves."
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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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"By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper bills."
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"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."
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"Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment."
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"With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail."
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"If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar."
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"Each of us have a choice to make. Will we choose to achieve our dreams or will we choose to allow others to use us to achieve their dreams."
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"Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?"
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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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"But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe."
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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 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."
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"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."
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"I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970."
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"Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point."
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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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"If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow."
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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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"Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university 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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"We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance."
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"Most people, faced with two difficult choices, prefer not to choose at all."
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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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"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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"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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"You can either choose a beautiful to fuck, which everyone fucks, or choose to fuck an ugly one, which no one fucks."
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