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"For any woman reading this, I hope it helps you to know you have options. I want to encourage every woman, especially if you have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, to seek out the information and medical experts who can help you through this aspect of your life, and to make your own informed choices."
"You are the sum total of your choices."
"Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow."
"In life, one is entitled to a side dish of either coleslaw or potato salad, and the choice must be made in terror, with the knowledge that not only is our time on earth limited but most kitchens close at ten."
"He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide."
"Truth allows no choice."
"That's how I digest it, 'cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I'm gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week."
"We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it."
"I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make."
"A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of "choice" when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses."
"The expansion of choice has become an explosion of choice."
"A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences."
"Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance."
"You look at the world and see how scary it can be sometimes and still try to deal with the fear. Comedy can deal with the fear and still not paralyze you or tell you that it's going away. You say, OK, you got certain choices here, you can laugh at them and then once you've laughed at them and you have expunged the demon, now you can deal with them. That's what I do when I do my act."
"O my choice beauty You've gone But your love remains in my heart Your image in my eye O guide on my winding road I keep turning round and round in the hopes of Finding you"
"The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice."
"I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices."
"Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice."
"The 3 C's of Life: Choices, Chances and Changes.You must make a choice to take a chance or you will never change."
"The choice to have a great attitude is something that nobody or no circumstance can take from you."
