Quotes About Choices

If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.

I run away from the one who is good on paper - the one who has it all together - and I run toward the one that's more complicated, and who I can fix and we can work on it together.

I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and don't always make the right choices.

Managers can make themselves look strong by selling or dropping players, but if the move doesn't work, the choice looks flawed.

I like quinoa and brown rice, and I try to do that over a lot of white flour bread, even though I love that kind of bread.

Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choices we make, or don't make, in life-defining matters. That moment of 'angst' and its consequences can be such a cruel thing.

I don't blame anyone but myself for the kind of parts I got. To blame external circumstances is absolute folly.

I don't even know what my favourite food is anymore, as they are all such bad foods!

It may seem difficult at first, but eating more high-nutrient foods reduces the desire for low-nutrient foods; it becomes easier with time.

Being an educated consumer is the best way to shop for nutritious, disease-preventing foods.

Diets are a fool's errand.

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

If I had the choice I'd be a boxer or a footballer.

There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

The economy of film forces you to make choices.

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.

I've really had a great career. It's been part fortune and part my own choices that steered my own career into playing the great roles that I've played on stage in Australia and at the National and West End in London and on Broadway.

I think, for me coming into the game, the way that I came into the sport and the business being ran the way that it was ran for me, I was always told who I would fight, and there was never really ever a fountain of guys to pick from.

When we frame women's choices in terms of extreme work or extreme mothering, women think they have to define themselves in terms of a single goal, everything else be damned.

Obviously you can stash money under your mattress, cut down on hazelnut lattes, but in terms of the larger economic frame of our lives, we have very little agency. About one of the only things you can do is understand it.

A friend of mine told me she's going to freeze her eggs, and I thought, 'Well, I also don't want to be a 55-year-old first time mother,' so you kind of just have to go with what happens.

Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.

The thing about my fridge is, it's a family fridge, so there's a little of something everybody likes in there.