Choices Quotes
  
  
  
	
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		Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Powers Boothe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tony Kushner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples and to become fully aware of the profound truth of the following conclusion which the United Nations approved by unanimity four years ago: "Mankind is confronted with a choice: we must halt the arms race and proceed to disarmament or face annihilation".
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alfonso Garcia Robles
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The vision one holds of one's life is so limited, reduced in scope to a moment, so that each person can make choices only within that narrowed reality.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Arlene J. Chai
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ismail Kadare
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Life is about choices. You ask the questions and you listen to the answers. Then you listen to your heart.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Peyton Manning
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I think the important thing is that there be plenty of newspapers, with plenty of different people controlling them, so that there are a variety of viewpoints, so there is a choice for the public. This is the freedom of the press that is needed.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rupert Murdoch
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Virginia Woolf
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think people are much more concerned about money now. There aren't the big advances of the past. You feel the sense of nervousness about the book industry. It's not like before. Not that I knew very much about what it was like because I was a newcomer to it, but I get that feeling that people are more conservative in their book choices and what they are going to publish and what's a sure sell. As opposed to - just like in the economy - a sense of luxury and sense of risk taking ten years ago.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sandra Cisneros
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lois McMaster
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rita Mae Brown
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Allison Winn Scotch
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Helen Keller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the distilling down and the getting to the core of what it is that you care about and what you want to say, really.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mike Leigh
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		To step into tomorrow's possibilities you must let go of yesterday's realities. Be careful of your choices between what was, is and will be. It is very hard to fully step into your destiny while you are still holding on to your history.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Christine Caine
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hillary Clinton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mitch Daniels