“There are so many choices I made simply for health insurance. Is it the ideal role I wanted to play, or the TV show I wanted to be a part of? No, but it let me afford to go to the doctor.” MadePlayShowsWantedChoicesRolesTvsIdealsDoctorsLet MeTv Shows Author:Amy Ryan
“I am not saying I will vote against John Ashcroft because he is pro-life, .. But let me say if someone was nominated for attorney general who was vehemently pro choice -- who in his or her career spent decades trying to find ways to expand the law abortion at nine months would be perfectly legal -- wouldn't you be more upset and raise more of a voice than against a nominee who was simply pro-choice?.” IfsWayTryingWould BeLawChoicesVoiceCareersMonthsVoteLet MeRaisesDecadesNineUpsetAbortionAttorneyPro LifeNine Months Author:Charles Schumer
“Let me just say that, if you ever have the choice of putting your words in powerpoint or having them carved into 30-foot high marble, I'd say go for the marble.” IfsChoicesFeetLet MeMarblePowerpoint Author:Peter Norvig
“There is a choice before us as people who live in a great world, so knit together that even America cannot stand quite outside it, or act as though it were situated somewhere on the moon! That choice is a choice - let me put it quite brutally - between heaven and hell. ... But it is not a choice between a heaven or a hell beyond the grave; it is a choice between making heaven or making hell on this side of the grave, and in this world, here and now.” PeopleWorldTogetherAmericaChoicesHeavenSidesHellThis WorldMoonLet MeGravesHere And NowHeaven And Hell Author:Maude Royden
“I've had my own anecdotals with old friends, here's a gentleman quoted in the Times about, "I believe my government is suppose to protect me but it has let me down. I resent having to defend myself; I shouldn't have to but at this point I don't feel like I have a choice."” FeelsBelieveGovernmentChoicesI BelieveMy OwnProtectLet MeGentlemanResentOld FriendsLet Me Down Author:Chuck Todd
“I was just burnt out. I didn't like the music business and I didn't like me. There's an element of falseness about the whole thing. Even things like doing an interview. It's not as though we just met in the pub and are having a chat - it's part of a process. If you do it all day, every day for years, you end up thinking: 'Who the hell am I?' I was lucky enough to make some money, enough to let me kick back. It was a great experience and it was nice to have a couple of No.1s but the best thing about it was that the money I made allowed me to have freedom and choice in my life.” IfsThinkingYearsMadeEndsEnoughWholeChoicesProcessHellNiceCoupleMetsLuckyElementsLet MeLike MeBest ThingsKicksInterviewsMusic BusinessPubsGreat ExperiencesBurnt OutFalseness Author:Rick Astley
“Let me say one thing to clarify my position. I think we can take distance from norm but I think we are also mired in norm, "empêtrés", I think you say in French. And I think the choices we can make are only in a certain struggle with the norms out of which we're constituted.” ThinkingCertainChoicesStruggleOne ThingPositionLet MeDistanceNorm Author:Judith Butler
“I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.” TryingKindChoicesMy OwnAcceptingLet MeBoxes Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw
“Growing up I had amazing parents who really let me be creative and free. I was the youngest of three by six years, the child who was the outsider and observer. When I went off to Boston to act, I was very young - 10. And my parents didn't fear that. They had the respect to let me make my choices.” YearsChildrenYoungChoicesThreeParentCreativeGrowing UpGrowingSixLet MeOutsidersBe CreativeObserversBostonAmazing Parents Author:Julie Taymor
“Working in TV and navigating success is a tricky thing. It's easier to navigate the hard work of starting out because you just do anything they let you do, but once you get into an orbit, after the thrusters have pushed you into the orbit, now you have to navigate that orbit. There's no choices when you're starting out. You're just like, "Please, let me do anything." But then it turns around and it's like, "We'll let you do anything".” ChoicesHard WorkLet MeTricky Author:Louis C. K.
“I do what I love to do. I have awesome people who let me make the choices I want to make. I navigate things by whether I want to play a part or not, to be honest.” PeopleChoicesHonestLet MeBeing Honest Author:Ellen Page
“I don't do anything that would ever come across as advice or suggestion, but it's just part of a debate. Like, "I would like to try this," or "Let me do another one with more stillness, let me emphasize that." Rather than "I think you should emphasize this, I think" - you know, I don't impose choices.” ThinkingTryingChoicesAdviceLet MeDebateStillness Author:Ben Kingsley
“Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended up was the product that was spit out at the end—and there was no going back for a redo. You couldn‟t take a peek at what you‟d manufactured and decide, Oh, wait, I wanted to make sewing machines instead of machine guns; let me go back to the beginning and start again. One shot. That was all you got.” MadeEndsWantedChoicesWaitingDestinyProductsGunShotsBuiltMachinesLet MeBeltsGearsSpitSewingLet Me GoMachine GunsRedos Book:Crave: A Novel of the Fallen Angels Source: Crave: A Novel of the Fallen Angels
“Like a lot of people, I’ve always enjoyed commenting on strangers’ outfits. Unlike a lot of people, I now had a new megaphone to do it with. And, let me tell you, commenting on people’s hilarious clothing choices through a megaphone makes it so much better.” PeopleChoicesLet MeStrangerEnjoyedClothingsOutfitsThis Is A Book Book:This Is a Book Source: This Is a Book
“I have to live and make my own choices, my own mistakes. You have to let me be me, even if i suck at it sometimes." - Adria” IfsSometimesChoicesMy OwnMistakeLet MeLet Me Be Me Author:J.A. Redmerski
“I was looking for someplace to store all the things I was feeling - the friction, the contradictions, the unmerciful truth - but my heart, my soul, my eyes and ears and even my toes were locking their doors. They wouldn't let me in. For safety reasons. I had no choice but to throw the feelings away.” HeartSoulReasonFeelingsEyeChoicesDoorsMy HeartEarsLet MeSafetyStoresMy SoulContradictionToesFriction Author:Tiffanie DeBartolo
“Heaven or Hell? You make it seem as if that's an easy choice to make. Sitting there in heaven watching others burn, and I can't do anything to help? That in itself would be hell for me. I'd be up there fighting god and his angels to let me out, so that I can come down and at least try to help. I am a moral person. Heaven is for uncaring Hypocrites.” IfsTryingPersonsI CanHelpingSeemsWould BeChoicesFightingHeavenFearEasyMoralHellAtheismSittingAngelLet MeDown AndRageHypocriteUncaringHeaven Or Hell Author:Deborah Pryce