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Choice Quotes


"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."


"If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go."


"We must believe in free will, we have no choice."


"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."


"Don't water anything that you don't want to grow in your life."


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


"When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice."


"Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness."


"What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make."


"All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!"


"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."


"Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices."


"We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice."


"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."


"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 point of cities is multiplicity of choice."


"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."


"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."


"Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice."


"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."


"A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational."


"And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents."


"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."


"You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house."


"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."


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


"And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference."


"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."


"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."


"If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy."
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