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"There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you."
"The quality of success you will experience in your life ultimately depends upon the tiny choices you make every minute of every hour of every day."
"being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm."
"After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland."
"Women have choices, and men have responsibilities."
"If it were a choice between putting ads on Wikipedia or shutting down Wikipedia, we would then very reluctantly consider putting ads on Wikipedia."
"The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it."
"With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there is one individual who is not being considered at all, and that is the one who is being aborted. And I have noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born."
"How does it feel to be the 's third choice? Humiliating? You could have thrown a dart. That's how close they were. We had so many excellent candidates."
"When I was cognizant of the war, I was very angry at the street-corner liberals who were trying to defame the footsoldier. Because there was a man who had no choice. He was a cog in the wheel, just trying to survive. I was always aware of that."
"I understand that a lot of other actors don't have a choice. They have to eat so they need to work and they'll do films that they're not so proud of. But I've been fortunate enough to be given a second wind, so I try to pick projects I know will provide the audience the kind of escapism they want from me."
"Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice."
"I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better."
"It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums."
"Everyone has their parent's [music] collection which is strongly influences what you listen to as a kid. You have no choice. You have to listen to whatever they're bumpin. I grew up with what they listened to a lot."
"Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own"
"Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you."
"If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else."
"If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity."
"The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things as they are and negotiating multiple priorities as she makes useful decisions without angst. Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you."
