Quotes About Choice

Football, for me, wasn't a foregone conclusion. My parents didn't force me into it, and quite the opposite happened.

You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.

In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them.

Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

I'm not going to have any more children. I'm quite confident about that.

Conflict comes from a person's own actions, not what someone else does to them.

People don't want Congress dictating what light fixtures they can use.

People think that I have some idea about how I choose my films. I make sure that I am doing the kind of films that I want to watch. You hear so many stories, and one of them will stand out and connect to you somewhere.

I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.

It hasn't been a conscious thing, like, 'I don't want to listen to a bunch of dudes,' but I genuinely like music by women better.

I made the conscious decision to not have kids, and I didn't want to be married.

Each and every role I have done has been a conscious decision.

The conscious decision, early on, was that I was going to live in New York. That was it.

It was not a conscious decision to become an actor.

Every decision you make has a consequence.

The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s.

Everything we do has consequences.

You can't be ashamed of the work you've done. You make a decision, and then you have to live with the consequences.

You know, that, with every choice you make there are consequences. And so if you have an amazing husband and you have a child, you go outside that marriage and outside that relationship, there are consequences that follow.

After Chelsea it was important to choose somewhere I was surrounded with the right people and commitment.

What matters is that my daughter is surrounded by love. I believe in the right to go down the path that feels best for you.

What more can an actor ask for than being surrounded by scripts to choose from?

America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

People react differently to hearing 'Procedure X has a 70 percent chance of survival' and 'Procedure Y has a 30 percent chance of death.' Phrased that way, people flock to Procedure X, even though the numbers are the same.