Quotes About Choice

Look, I am as pro-choice as anybody.

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.

I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.

I'm 100% pro-life.

I am pro-life, but because life is complicated, that choice is between a woman and her idea of a higher power.

My point is that I am pro-life but I still believe that I do not have a right to force a woman to do anything with her body, the same way that I can't force somebody to come to Jesus Christ.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

I could easily not act again. It's not a problem.

Democracy's got endless problems and faults and dangers, but it's certain the alternatives are not better.

At fancy and expensive restaurants (say, $50 and up for a dinner), you can follow a simple procedure to choose the best meal. Look at the menu and ask yourself: 'Which of these items do I least want to order?' Or: 'Which one sounds the least appetizing?' Then order that item.

Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of certain men but with the processes of choice and preference.

I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the distilling down and the getting to the core of what it is that you care about and what you want to say, really.

I would love to say to all Americans: 'Each candidate is going to produce a film of an hour and a half. You're going to watch one from each candidate, and then you're going to vote!'

I really didn't even pick producers. I just picked beats, except for Dre - he's the only producer I knew I wanted to work with.

The idea that American producers and directors are choosing black British talent to save themselves a buck or two is ridiculous - it's because we're damn good.

As producers, we choose who to work with and what films to get involved with. There's no rule, but it has to come from an honest place. It has to come from a necessity.

I think competition always produces better results than a monopoly.

I've gotten involved in producing now, so the kinds of things that are more my own choice are more possible in that field because I don't have to be castable. I can actually get involved in getting stories off the ground that no one would ask me to be in because I'm the wrong age, the wrong sex, the wrong nationality, or whatever.

I certainly don't only watch Netflix. I enjoy the fact there is multiple companies producing content. I think it's great for consumers.

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.