Quotes About Choice

My second choice would've been Carolina. And when I told my mother I was going to Duke and not Carolina, she just cried, and that made my decision process a little harder. But I still went with what felt right, and it ended up working out well for me.

If I hadn't chosen acting, I would be a food critic.

If I weren't an actor, I'd either be a teacher or a critic.

It's an artist's choice to listen to criticism or not. I'm very sensitive to criticism.

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

You make decisions just crossing the street.

I was at the crossroads of my life when I was 7 years old.

It might sound cliched, but choosing the right script is crucial. I think 'Badmaash Company' was a very big break for me because it gave me a lot of appreciation from the masses. It made me more confident as an actor.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, 'What sign do I want to give to God?' That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

Because he'll take me to Cuba and I don't want to go to Cuba.

I think that one of the things I'd learned from being so attentive to the careers of the people I've admired is the fact that they would say 'no' a lot. Early on, I took that as a cue to only work on things that I knew I would be passionate about.

If you don't have to get out of bed and do something every morning, that's kind of a curse.

You shouldn't take a customer who's buying an album, who's happy buying an album, and try to tell them that what they're doing is wrong.

I try to avoid cheese, dairy and a lot of meat, but I do like them.

Sometimes you have to hold your nose and vote for the person who is going to do the least damage or who is maybe going to pull you back from the brink.

In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

I don't like closed systems.

That's the thing with electronic music, you set up systems to bring in an accident, to bring in quirks you didn't choose, but you still will have had to set up systems.

I wasn't just pro-choice, I was pro-everything, until I started taking everything off the table and began looking at things and asking if this view was consistent with that view.

Farm to table is a personal choice.

I just cannot have an offer on the table and just let it go.

I didn't choose 'Silver Spoons'. I think my mom and agent chose it because at that time there was a lack of patience on some of the people that were in charge of my career. I think there was a big offer on the table, and I think they took it.

We need choices of government, just like we have choices of tables or chairs or cell phones or coffee.