Quotes About Choice

With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how to watch things. But there's what we lose in the bargain, which is the collective spectacle. 'Did you see Jay Leno last night?'

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

We've gone from one end of the spectrum, where we didn't want children, to the other end where we thought, 'yes, let's try it.'

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.

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

It's a simple quality of human nature that people prefer to choose to do things rather than be ordered to do them. In fact, as soon as you tell me I have to do something - give a speech, attend a banquet, go to Cannes - I immediately start looking for ways to avoid doing it.

There's certain issues, as I say in my speeches, that I'm not going to compromise on; I'm not going to compromise on a woman's right to choose and on marriage equality.

You don't get a mix of ovals and road/street course racing with this level of competition and speed anywhere other than Indy Car, and I think that's why it has remained a popular choice for so many young drivers.

I'd much rather play Batman's cousin than Batman. That's more of my speed.

L.A.'s pretty great, man. But I'll be very honest - I prefer New York. It's more my speed.

I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it's such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that.

I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me.

We had a large spell in 1985-86, but we would have had to move to the States and be available all the time, so we chose to remain a European act.

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.

I would rather spend one day on Maui than 30 days in the hospital.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

What I want to do is to make sure that we fully repeal Obamacare. This will be one of the largest spending initiatives we will ever see in our country. And also, it will take away choice from the American people.

I'm not going to run around uselessly spending money. It's a matter of choosing your charity. Some people choose themselves. For me, that is not enough.

If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience. If I had to choose, it would be theater and doing the occasional movie once in a while, and spending time doing nothing.

I wanted to leave Dortmund in Dortmund and not think about spending time with Jurgen when I chose a new club. That was partly a reason for me not to go to Liverpool.

A lot of money is spent trying to keep people alive who don't necessarily want to be alive.

When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.