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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
I stand for mandatory toothbrushing laws.
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.
Complying with requests from Congress is not optional. It is mandatory.
After you win all these belts, you cannot fight all these mandatory guys.
The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.
I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.
Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.
Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
When you talk about mandatory minimums, it created a lot of unfairness in our sentencing.
I love 'Eurovision!' It's the best thing in the world, and it should be mandatory viewing.
I know these are my mandatory overs, but I would like to do films for as long as I breathe.
You have to tackle the real drivers of debt - that's mandatory spending, not discretionary.
Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory.
Mandatory stints in the private economy before college enrollment could do wonders for study skills.
Mandatory arbitration clauses I think, more often than not, work to the detriment of working people.
Americans are fed up with these mandatory census surveys, and they're asking us to stop the harassment.
I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory!
There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.
I am not exactly Mrs. Good Housekeeping, although I love to cook, bake, even iron, but only because it's not mandatory.
I derive a lot of joy from cooking. Had cooking been a mandatory task, I probably would have felt differently about it.
I did not have a black coat to wear to the Oscars. It was a mandatory dress code, that was the reason I gave it a miss.
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Rain harvesting should be made mandatory and should be made more systematic to ensure that every drop of rain is preserved.
When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
I am absolutely not in favor of any compulsory vaccinations. Vaccination against coronavirus should absolutely not be mandatory.
The ACA's reliance on mandatory participation in exchanges as the only way to obtain a health insurance subsidy is fundamentally flawed.
Pain is mandatory for all of us. It's what teaches us. Suffering is what's optional. That's what happens when we try to skip over the pain.
We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere, for anyone.
I think an artist who has it in their heart to do or say something, they'll say it. It's not something that's mandatory, but it will come out.
Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
Heterosexuals were the upstarts who turned marriage into a voluntary love relationship rather than a mandatory economic and political institution.
Mandatory minimum sentences give no discretion to judges about the amount of time that the person should receive once a guilty verdict is rendered.
I played sports because I think it's mandatory in the greater Boston area regardless of your aptitude. It's like, well, what else would you be doing?
I volunteered to deploy to Iraq. I was one of the few soldiers who were not on the mandatory deployment roster - close to 3,000 Hawaii soldiers were.
A binding treaty and mandatory human rights due diligence would clean up slavery in global supply chains. Workers demand it, and consumers demand it.
Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.
That was mandatory in the contract with Aaron Spelling, that if you were contracted to do one of his shows, you had to do any other shows that were his.
The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.
It should be mandatory that any tax breaks go through appropriate committees and be voted on separately by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
I know I have a mandatory with Errol Spence. He's a very talented fighter but not really heard of in the U.K. or even America, but we all know he can fight.
If the Department of Education is serious about fighting for students and protecting taxpayers, a full ban of mandatory arbitration clauses is a no-brainer.
Federal law provides very powerful tools, such as strict mandatory sentences, to go after repeat violent offenders who are illegally in the possession of a gun.
Do you agree that the European Union should be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?
We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.
My career does not depend on AJ. He's got four of the belts, but if I'm mandatory for one or two of them and he doesn't fight me, they will strip him at some point.
The moment your kids start crawling, they are exercising. To them, movement is fun and organic... It is adults who have turned daily activity into a mandatory chore.
Whenever you're starting a new show, you have these awkward first lunches and meetings that are sort of mandatory, and everybody shows up, but nobody knows each other.
One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.
