- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Choice Quotes
On decisions that carry real weight.
These choice quotes explore decision-making at very different scales — personal control through encryption, an artist's preference for theatre because of its immediate audience reaction, and game design built entirely around choice and consequence. One line looks back critically at how public support for the Iraq war leaned on fear linking 9/11 to unproven weapons claims, a sober historical reflection. See Choose quotes for a closely related angle.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have very strong views on TV. There's no diversity, there's no choice. Things are decided by committee.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.
- Graduate Student
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace is a conscious choice.
- Formation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
- Fearsome
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
- Debilitating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living with mental illness is not a choice and can lead to debilitating circumstances.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020