Television is like a library. There are a lot of library books in it, and you have to pick and choose what you take out of it.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

It used to be so important to choose what you were. Gay or straight. Male or female. I think the new generation is more fluid.

I want to give every victim of every crime in San Francisco the right to participate in restorative justice if they choose to.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.

Before I was working out, if somebody told me that I would actually choose fruit over french fries, I would never believe them.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

I think 'Charming Billy' ultimately is a novel about faith and what we believe in and, above all, what we choose to believe in.

New York gives us a wide colour palette to cook from. We have cuisines from around the world, and that lets us pick and choose.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

When you are choosing an MP you need to choose the person who is pretty much likely to be the best representative for your area.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there's one thing you can't say about me - that I didn't attack it.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits perfectly in the space you own.

We can be shiny and perfect and admired, or we can be real and honest and vulnerable and loved. But we actually do have to choose.

I never choose my opponents, but I think the biggest fight that everybody wants to watch, the fans want to watch, is me and Ronda.

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

I haven't been an actor who's been able to pick and choose roles, and being a family man, it's been about putting food on the table.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

If I had to choose Reaganomics or 13 staffers quitting, I think for the average working American, Reaganomics was a much better deal.

Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I always prided myself on my ability to choose good clerks, and one of the key elements was whether I thought I would like the person.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

I choose not to be in front of the camera. Sometimes I do get offered parts, but I really like just making movies and telling stories.

If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

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