Quotes About Choice

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

Even with limited success as an actor, you usually have a more interesting life than in many other professions, so it's not an unreasonable choice.

I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting.

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.

When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn't carry on with it, which I regret.

We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would choose - freely choose - to keep His commandments and come unto His Beloved Son. They do not compel us. They cannot, for that would interfere with the plan of happiness. And so there is in us a God-given desire to be responsible for our own choices.

Whether will the twain will ye that I release unto you?

I don't take a movie unless it offers me something unusual.

Making ribs in Texas isn't that unusual a choice for 'Top Chef'. We played the stereotypes everywhere we go. It's not only in Texas. We do it in New York; we did it in San Francisco. Listen if we shoot it in Seattle you know we're going to be throwing salmon somewhere.

My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. It's about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

The U.S. is such an unusual place in the world because you can believe anything you want.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Everyone goes down a road that they're not supposed to go down. You can do two things from it. You can keep going down that road and go to a dark place. Or you can turn and go up the hill and go to the top - try to go to the top.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

Surely, marriage is throwing anchor and saying, 'This is where I'm staying. I've made my choice, and this is all I want because I've been on the up and down escalator, through the revolving door, and I want to stand still.' That's what I expected.

I had an upbringing to respect other people's privacy and their right to be and choose what they want, and I expect - no, demand - no less for myself.

Ultimately, it's one's upbringing, consciousness and circumstances that decide the path you'll choose.

I think the kind of person I am, and the kind of upbringing I have had, I have my mother's aesthetic. So my choice of films will largely reflect that.

It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education.

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