Famous Quotes & Sayings

The unknown here is the extent to which someone retains an ethnic identity that influences their choices of entertainment. It's a large enough population that marketers are spreading their bets.

Kathryn Gallagher

The way we look at it is choice is good for the customer. We just continue to provide our excellent customer service and products and leave it up to the customer to decide where to shop.

The sharp escalation in gold prices over the past year, up more than 40% over the past 12 months, clearly makes gold one of the wisest investment choices of recent times.

The strategic direction is good, but I need to see continued moves to back up the choices management has made. The question is what they will do with semiconductors and what kind of acquisitions they will pursue for medical.

Jim Messina

The studying led me to the fact that I really am a songwriter and music is what I love to do, ... I also understood the patterns in my life and discovered that I wasn't so unique. I was very much like many other people who had a choice to get well and leave a narcissistic world or continue to struggle with it.

The spirit of what Kirby Puckett had indicated with his wish to be an organ donor was consistent with who he was and his zest for life. What's encouraging to us is that his statement might encourage others to think about that choice for themselves.

Raymond Domenech

The talks with Ukraine are over because there is no room for talks left. Now, we have no choice but to resort to a draw.

(The talks' suspension) is unavoidable. But if (the city) won't squarely sit at the table, we will have no choice but to proceed with the (original) government policy.

Proprietary technology relegates you either to a niche or to the ditch. We're growing our market opportunity by steadfastly open sourcing the entirety of our software portfolio--from the Solaris OS to Java developer tools--and now we're taking the next step by open sourcing the world's most innovative microprocessor under the GPL. Giving our customers more choice and driving community innovation expands our economic opportunity and is forcing our competitors to sit up and take notice--we are back on offense.

Proposition 75 is a workers rights issue; our teachers, police and firefighters want a choice. Union leaders are out of touch with their own members.

John Jay

Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian Nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.

Ayn Rand

Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: "You must, if " and the "if" stands for man's choice

Craig Venter

People think they're making individual decisions for themselves and their family not to get vaccinated. It's not just an individual choice - you're a hazard to society.

Our customers are telling us that they want to be able to download music tracks directly to their phones and our focus now is on extending the choice that we provide.

Jacob Sullum

People should have a choice whether they want to engage in risky activities.

People think I'm crazy, but for this first festival I wanted to give them a choice and show them what's out there. Fortunately, we have a lot of snowbirds here that can come by and see a matinee. Let's hope they do.

People are there by choice. It's increasingly unusual that undergraduates are willing to commit their time to something like this. What we do tends to fly in the face of a lot of popular culture. It's being committed to music making of a fairly high order.

Jim Wallis

On this budget, we have the starkest choice we've had in a long time -- tax cuts for the wealthiest versus food stamps and Medicaid.

Offering the latest colors, coolest styles and fabrics creates enthusiasm. But people also fear making a mistake. A small percentage of customers want to do it themselves, and the vast majority wants someone else to narrow the choices so decisions are easier to make.

Janet Evanovich

I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans.

Jane Rule

Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative, which is perhaps why in our morally bewildered time novelists have often been timid about plot.

Jane Mayer

If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices.

Errol Flynn

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

Cassandra Clare

Love takes your choices away.

Cassandra Clare

Clarissa," he said, "here with the vampire, I see. When things have settled a bit, we really must discuss you choice in pets..

Cassandra Clare

In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.

I had a husband who stayed with me, and small children, and I had no choice but to pull myself together and rebuild a different kind of life. There was no other choice.

Evo Morales

Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet...Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.

Evan Williams

Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

Moby

I have to say that being a vegan in 1986 or whenever was a lot different than being a vegan in 2012. You'd go to health foods stores and basically your choice was between Mung beans and nutritional yeast, and that's about it.

Mickey Rourke

Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.

Kim Wilde

When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

Nate Silver

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.