Quotes About Choice

As much as I hate that it's a business decision - like, I'm just picking a school - it really is a business decision. I really don't see anything wrong with waiting it out.

For me, picking a college was really difficult. I wish I had had my parents there kind of supervising me. But I chose well. I did OK.

The public always picks quality.

You pick your destiny or maybe destiny picks you. But it picked me to box, definitely.

I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.

I've been really picky about the sort of characters that I want to represent.

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

We'd rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn't.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.

I know we don't all follow in the family footsteps, but you are, I suppose, more likely to consider becoming a butcher if you have spent your childhood watching a parent debone a pig.

To me, the biggest revolution of the 20th century was the pill.

I think with beauty there is so much to be done. A pill that will give you everlasting youth. To choose the exact age you want to stay at from a hundred pill bottles? That would be fun.

They're supposed to cure everything. Want a baby? Have a Brandreth pill. Don't want a baby? Have a Brandreth pill.

Whenever I pick a script, I make sure I'm choosing something I would want to watch. And 'Quantico' was something I'd definitely want to watch. As soon as I read the pilot - and I read 26 this season - I knew this was it.

I wasn't the first choice for the role of Danny Tanner. Betty White was. Not true, but there was another actor whom they had shot the pilot with.

Most of the pilots I choose do not have high-concept ideas, so for me it's not the idea as much as the execution of the idea, and if the idea, like you take a bar in Boston, that's not a high-concept idea. But if it's executed well, it makes a great show.

No, I never drink beer. I've never had a pint of lager in my life.

I'm more of a Smithwick's or Bulmer's girl than a pint of Guinness.

I've never bought a pint of milk in my life.

The Pirate Bay was never for making people not pay, it was for making people free to choose what to share and who they want to share it with.

I left Goldman Sachs. I was thinking about going to another Wall Street place. I didn't want to do that. That was crazy. After you work on Wall Street, it's a choice: would you rather work at McDonald's or on the sell side? I would choose McDonald's over the sell side.

I had a choice between working on Wall Street or doing consulting or working at a start-up, and I got a job at a start-up. I was one of the first employees there, and I did everything for them, and it was so much fun.

Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.