Quotes About Choices

My mom wanted me to be like... a doctor, a lawyer. I was with it, being like a lawyer or something, because you make hella money and I wasn't tryna be broke.

Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling - having to make choices between paying for their kids' education or saving for their own retirement.

Our choices are quite different: what attracts Salman and Shah Rukh are, I think, quite different from what attracts me. So in that sense, we are quite different, but I think we are fortunate to have had the kind of success that we've had.

And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.

Money is... I'm very conscious of it because I have it. It's powerful, man. It can change you ever so slightly, ever so slowly, and all of a sudden you're addicted to a million-dollar lifestyle and you've got no choice but to make a bad movie.

I don't think there was any point where I was like, 'I want to be an actor for the rest of my life.' The nice thing about being a kid is you don't have to make those decisions. Then all of a sudden, you blink, and you're 18.

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what was 'safe,' we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities.

A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.

A lot of people say television holds up a mirror to life, and that's why you see all the drug busts and the killings and the seamier side of life. I personally take the view that it's not sufficient to portray only negative role models. It's not enough to say 'no' to drugs. What do you say 'yes' to?

I'm not a Twinkie lover. I don't do sugar or dairy either.

I don't eat fried stuff. I don't eat red meats. And now with stuff like sugar, I don't crave it.

I was definitely one of those people who fell for the fat-free cookies and chips that are loaded with sugar and calories.

When my son was little, he asked me: 'Daddy, which is worser, sugar or salt?' I still don't know the answer.

Don't eat sugar. It's stupid.

I don't have sugar and try to avoid it as much as possible. At home, I don't have it at all.

I usually don't include sugar in my meals.

I realised I owned eight pink suits, which I did not need.

I've had women buy their entire wardrobes from me; from suits to full-length evening gowns and sophisticated day dresses, they buy everything.

As a dramatist, you have 200 choices at every fork in the road. But the audience will reject it if you make the wrong choice, if they feel you are trying to shape the character in a way that suits you. It rings false immediately. People can sense when you're being cynical or schematic.

I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.

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