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“Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?”

“I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties.”

Thinking Should Made Choices Regret Twenties

Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“There are still countries where women don't enjoy basic rights like the vote or the freedom to study or the freedom of choice in marriage. Every year there are twenty million little girls in Africa who are deprived of their sexuality through brutal genital operations. Basically, there's still much to be done.”

Years Littles Stills Country Done Choices Girl Enjoy Millions Study Rights Vote Twenties Sexuality Operations Brutal Deprived Freedom Of Choice Basic Rights

Author:Dacia Maraini

“I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I'm a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven't a clue what else to do.”

“If it's a choice between spending twenty five dollars for tickets to a movie and almost that much again for drinks and popcorn, it's understandable that people are opting to buy a movie on DVD for fifteen dollars, even if it's no-frills.”

People Ifs Choices Five Drink Twenties Dollars Spending Fifteen Tickets Twenty Five Dvds Popcorn Frills

Author:Tim Lucas

“Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.”

Years Firsts Choices Left Answers Century Twenties Socialism Barbarity

Book:The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition

Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition

“If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. My gift - bad choice of words - is that I can look at you, him, her, them, whoever, and tell right away what is keeping them awake at night: money; feelings of insignificance; overwhelming boredom; evil children; job troubles; or perhaps death, in one of its many costumes, perched in the wings. What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.”

“Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks; Tuck a child in the crook of your arm And reach for the library books. Hide the remote, Let the computer games cool, For one day your children will be off to school; Remedial? Gifted? You have the choice; Let them hear their first tales In the sound of your voice. Read in the morning; Read over noon; Read by the light of Goodnight Moon. Turn the pages together, Sitting close as you'll fit, Till a small voice beside you says, "Hey, don't quit.”

“Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.”

Years Long School Choices Names Five Four Childhood Needed Late Twenties University Affair Forgotten Thirty Five Years Teens Leavers

Author:Ian Mcewan

“We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways to go, all but one bound to be wrong, and the richness of the selection in such situations can lift us onto totally new ground.”

Way Mind Humans Two Different Sometimes Science Choices Situation Ten Twenties Dancing Bounds Lifts Different Ways Finest Selection Richness

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“Many things shaped my identity as a young boy: a strong selfworth (something that was instilled in all three Barrowman siblings by our parents), my immersion in theatre and music, and my DNA. I was born gay. It's not a choice I – or anyone else who is gay – made. If it were, why on earth would anyone choose to be part of a minority, part of a group that in so many cultures and countries, even in the twenty-first century, is regularly blasphemed, hounded and worse?”

Ifs Firsts Made Country Earth Young Choices Culture Three Strong Parent Born Boys Groups Century Identity Gay Twenties Theatre Minorities Dna Sibling Immersion Born Gay

Book:Anything Goes: The Autobiography

Source: Anything Goes: The Autobiography

“I gotta go on doin' it the way I see it...I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I'm here to have a party while I'm on this earth...I'm gettin' it now, today. I don't even know where I'm gonna be twenty years from now, so I'm just gonna keep on rockin', cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me...man, there ain't gonna be nothing left for Janis.”

Ifs Knows Men Way Years Today Earth Choices Left Causes Bits Party Pieces Goes On Twenties Saving Bits And Pieces Saving Up

Author:Janis Joplin