Quotes About Choices

I did a TV job, 'Aint Misbehavin, purely for the money. I was disappointed with myself and, inevitably, incredibly unhappy.

Unhealthy meals don't just cause internal damage decades down the road, but right here and now, within hours of going into your mouth.

Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become a millionaire overnight, obviously, but I said no, and I continue to be uninterested.

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.

Lawmakers in both political parties have often acceded to unions' requests to avoid political confrontations or to curry favor. They have pushed difficult choices into the future.

Washington faces many challenges these days, and today's United States Senate needs more trusted conservatives going there to make decisions and choices that put the people first and not the business-as-usual crowd.

I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.

In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite universities like Harvard, siphoning off gifted undergraduates who might otherwise have been scientists, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, artists or inventors.

Because I did well at the prep school, I got to have more options as some different universities gave me offers.

When I finished school, everyone wanted to go to a good university and become a lawyer or a doctor. My A-levels were sort of chosen for me.

Sometimes life limits your choices - rising tuition costs may put university out of reach, or like me, personal circumstances might simply make it difficult to complete your education.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.

If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

You can have it all, just not all at the same time.

There's practically no religion that I know of that sees other people in a way that affirms the others' choices. But in our century we're forced to think about a pluralistic world.

I think a lot of women have too many mini skirts in their closets.

I urge young women to look ahead and see if they want to have a lonely old age or do they want to have what I have, which is the joy of 14 beautiful grandchildren.

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.

Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.