Choices Quotes - Page 36

• They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There’s no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

  Heather Matarazzo

  School, Class, Multiple Choice

  "Heather Matarazzo: ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’ changed my life". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. March 22, 2011.

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• I hope that you choose ultimately to follow your heart, and learn that whatever your plans, your goals, your dreams, life will take you in directions you haven't even dreamed of. Be open to the path not chosen, the door unopened, welcome your fear, and the choices that allow you that fear....Through all the changes, through all the disappointments, the unexpected turns, the victories, and the pain, the losses that you will experience, there will always be a constant, along with your breath, there will always be one thing that you will know, that you have the ability to choose your heart.

  Paul Michael Glaser

  Dream, Pain, Disappointment

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• To me, beauty is confidence. I think I’m pretty confident in the decisions and the choices I make in my personal life and career, but the same time I also let my fans know that, just like them, I have insecurities. I have moments when I don’t feel good about myself. I think people can forget that, at the end of the day, I’m just a normal girl dealing with lots of the same issues as them.

  Selena

  Girl, Thinking, Careers

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• Now's the time to take a chance, come on we've gotta make a stand. What do we have to lose the choice is in our hands.

  Selena

  Time, Hands, Chance

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• Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice - made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life.

  George W. Bush

  Suicide, Children, Choices Made

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for us, so why can we not give workers a choice when it comes to their retirement?

  John Doolittle

  Retirement, Giving, Workers

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• The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Women, Responsibility, Rights

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.98, Grove Press

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• I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

  Bob Dylan

  God, Mountain, Checks

  Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, No -who is not resolved that he will take God's way, in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside-will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies.

  Alexander MacLaren

  God, Dog, Heart

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• Remember you always have freedom of choice.

  Jenny Holzer

  Art, Remember You, Remembers You

  Jenny Holzer (1983). “Truisms and essays”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.

  John Spence

  Being Yourself, Life Changing, Thinking

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• Yes no yes no yes no? Red blue? Yes red, no blue? No red, yes no? In out, up down? Do don't, can can't? Choices sit on the shelf life New shoes in a shoe shop. If the in crowd are squeezing into a must-have shoe And the one pair left are too tiny for you Don't feel compelled into choosing them If you're really a size 9, buy that size. While everyone else Hobbles round with sore feet Your choices should feel comfortable Or they aren't your choices at all. Why limp when you can sprint

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Blue, Shoes, Feet

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• We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?

  Susan Sontag

  Understanding, Facts, Negotiation

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.259, Macmillan

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• I don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, and she hadn't, things got narrow real quick. Like trying to wade a river, she thought. You take a wrong step and set your foot on a wobbly rock or in a drop-off and you're swept away, and all you can do then is try to survive.

  Ron Rash

  Real, Rivers, Feet

  Ron Rash (2009). “Serena”, p.83, Canongate Books

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• You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals

  Lev Grossman

  Mistake, Pennies, Free Will

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.533, Penguin

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• People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you

  Bella Pollen

  Knowing, People, Decision

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.320, Pan Macmillan

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• God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Love, Pain, Results

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Work, Cutting, Space

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• But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.

  Daniel J. Evans

  School, Engineering, Law

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• I had a second trimester abortion. I was pregnant with a much-wanted child who was diagnosed with a genetic abnormality. I made a choice to terminate the pregnancy. It was my third pregnancy, and I was very obviously showing. More important, I could feel the baby move.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Baby, Children, Pregnancy

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• My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative, prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably alike, and to be able to circulate them at a price not higher than that of a popular magazine, or even a daily paper. To gain that ability there has been no choice but to follow the road I have chosen.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Negative, Magazines, Alive

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• Make choices-not excuses.

  Charles J. Givens

  Adversity, Excuse

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• There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

  Alison Lurie

  Life, Thinking, Want

  Alison Lurie (2012). “Real People: A Novel”, p.155, Open Road Media

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• You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

  David Antin

  Pay, Language, Audience

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• The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.

  Barbra Streisand

  Health, Winning, Accountability

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