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Choices Quotes

It’s funny: as a director, there are movies you make because you’re passionate about getting your vision across, and you know that you’re vision is different than anybody else. In those cases, you take the plunge, and it works, or it doesn’t. You make the stylistic choices based on how you feel about the material.

– Michael Lehmann

Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don’t care, that’s a decision. There’s something you’re trying to say.

– Felicity Jones

I’ve come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about… those are always the wrong choices.

– Michelle Williams

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I’d say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I’d only be in action films, but I’m interested in a more varied career than that.

– Famke Janssen

I’ve never made choices based on money – I always trust my gut.

– David James Elliott

Life is about luck and it’s about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It’s about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

– Mike Leigh

You know, back in acting school they always teach you, ‘Make bold choices and look for activities that are interesting.’

– Mickey Rourke

A restaurant is a compendium of choices that the owner has made. If you look around a restaurant, everything represents a choice: the kind of salt shaker that’s on the table, the art on the walls, the uniforms on the waiters.

– Danny Meyer

Music is like girlfriends to me; I’m continually astonished by the choices other people make.

– David Lee Roth

Restaurants with small courses that give the customer choices, and that don’t obligate them to spend a fortune, are going to do very well.

– Danny Meyer

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

– Margaret Drabble

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

– Daniel Kahneman

We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we’re put in circumstances and bad choices are made.

– Elizabeth Rodriguez

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.

– Mangosuthu Buthelezi

The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually – to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul – harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.

– Gary Zukav

I am not that attached to material things. And the good thing is I can make choices. I have very few possessions. Luckily, as a man you don’t need much… a few papers, a couple of books, and a few shirts, jackets, sweaters. It fits in a little thing, in a paper bag, so it’s very easy.

– Nicolas Berggruen

I’ve just been lucky. I’d like to have more choices, and I’d like to have a leading part.

– Marisa Tomei

A theme in a lot of my books – and in my own life – is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

– Emily Giffin

When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: you can lead it and make the rules, or you can be a fast follower, or you can be a slow follower.

– Charlie Ergen

There are Michael Scott moments, which are character choices, but there are also Steve’s reads. Usually the things that I’m the biggest fan of are these weird reads that he does – just the way he’s interacting with other people.

– Greg Daniels

Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.

– Derek Bok

Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you’ve made some choices, and maybe they weren’t the right choices, and that it’s all coming to an end.

– Mike Singletary

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don’t give a second thought to the chances we take.

– Gloria Estefan

Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.

– David Cameron

Whether you’re six or sixty, if you go on a diet and lifestyle program and feel constrained, you’re likely to go off it sooner or later. Offering a spectrum of choices is much more effective; then, you feel free and empowered.

– Dean Ornish

At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time.

– Mike McCready

Mike Leigh taught me about making choices – as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it’s always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

– Eddie Marsan

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

– George Papandreou

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

– Danny Glover

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