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Choices Quotes

I don’t harp on the negative because if you do, then there’s no progression. There’s no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.

– Taraji P. Henson

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

– Tori Amos

I need to make the characters that I play in movies more accessible to audiences, more real. As an actor, you’re always passive; you’re not making that many choices, so when something allows you to open up a bit, you want to explore your newfound freedom.

– Shu Qi

I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no necessary form. You can know what you want it to be, or do, and still not know how to write it. There are endless possibilities, infinite choices. What voice should it be in? What events to start with? What characters will be part of it?

– Sue Miller

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

– William Glasser

I was born in 1948, so I’m a ’60s kid, and in the ’60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about political choices, ideology, Marxism, revolution, ‘the system’ and so on.

– Tony Judt

Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that if they offer us too many choices, we may not buy anything.

– Sheena Iyengar

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

– Wayne Dyer

I want to make smart choices.

– Samantha Barks

I promise you that I did not become an addict because of anything to do with the behavior of either of my parents. Everybody has to make their own choices.

– Steve Earle

I’m always touched by people’s different stories of who they are and why they made the choices that they made. I feel so empowered by the story behind the person.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

Know today that God approves of you. He’s pleased with you. He may not always be pleased with your choices or some of the things you do, but when God looks at you, He sees His amazing creation.

– Victoria Osteen

What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.

– Ted Cruz

As borrowers, we may feel guilty about running up debt, anxious about making payments, and resentful of the constraints that old obligations (and old credit records) impose on our current choices. We may find it too easy to buy things we may later regret.

– Virginia Postrel

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I’ve never questioned the choices I make as a director.

– Steven Spielberg

You won’t believe it, but my grandfather named me. And the choices were between Sparkle, Sprinkle and Twinkle. So, thank God, they chose Twinkle.

– Twinkle Khanna

It was very hard to make ‘Funny Face’ in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city that was glorious, that was unique and surprising, to get it, to put it on film you have to make choices and reject a lot of things so you’re always wondering: ‘Am I doing it right?’

– Stanley Donen

I think it’s really important for artists in general to invest in themselves. And I view my schoolwork as something I’m investing in for me. And I’m my own product as an actor. There’s a kind of career that I want, and I feel like I’m making choices to obtain that.

– Sarah Gadon

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

– Tom G. Palmer

I’ve been acting for 15 years now, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about ‘this is my career, and this is what I’m going to be doing.’ Since I’ve started coming to the States, I’ve had a really great response. It’s given me a lot of confidence to be more judicious about my own choices.

– Tom Ellis

America’s a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

– Tiger Woods

As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.

– Tori Amos

Some days are more intense and quiet, and then other days, you feel more relaxed and are able to open up on set. It just depends on what you’re doing that day. I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you’re doing a particular scene are going to feed into the creation of that scene.

– Thomas Jane

I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she’s a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.

– Zooey Deschanel

By necessity, budgets require hard choices.

– Sam Graves

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.

– Spike Lee

Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you’re hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what’s going on.

– Stephen Hopkins

I’ve slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with… what I was happy with, and that’s my own fault. I’ve got no one else to blame about that stuff.

– Shane Warne

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

– Tom G. Palmer

There have definitely been ebbs and flows in my career, but, you know, part of the reason is that I’m a mom. I have a five-year-old daughter. She really factors into my choices, and I never want to go too long without seeing her.

– Sandrine Holt

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