I’m glad I chose more vulnerable work about what is love and what is freedom and those kinds of things. But there’s something innate in me where I always come back to characters with an edge.
I stubbornly chose the most difficult sport for myself. When I reached the summit, I felt like screaming at the top of my voice. I wanted to tell the world: here I am. I have saved that moment inside me.
I chose to publish the first ‘Shopaholic’ book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.
I grew up on the Eastern Shore during desegregation. A lot of white parents chose to send their kids to private schools rather than integrate – but not mine. My brother and I both attended and graduated from public schools. It’s one of the best things that happened to me.
Like millions of parents, I chose to send my children to a religious school that shares my belief system, which is central to my life. I objected to changes in the school that, in my opinion, did not reflect that belief system.
Basketball was always my sport. It just took me until my second year of college for me to realize that I was a better baseball player than a basketball player. But basketball was always my number one love. Finally found out I was better at baseball and chose to pursue that route.
When I was growing up in the 1980s in the Midlands, I felt abandoned and misunderstood. Then I chose drum ‘n’ bass and graffiti as my subcultures – which didn’t really help.
When Bill Clinton chose Al Gore in 1992 – from the same generational, ideological, and geographical background as his – it underscored his campaign’s central argument that this was a clash between the past and the future, that ‘Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow’ was indeed the campaign’s anthem.
Every comedian comes to a fork in the road where they have to decide if they’re going to make jokes about other people or make jokes about themselves. I chose myself.
I added and deleted according to the audiences’ response to different gestures, and chose songs to build an act that would constantly stimulate my audience.
I know that some of the characters I played were trash. But then, I chose to take up those roles, as I enjoyed doing them.
When my mother was young, only two professions were open to women ; teaching and nursing. She chose nursing, but the teaching profession was full of talented women like her, confined there in part because they had few career options.
Personally, I chose my own undergraduate institution in large part because the scholarship options made it affordable for me to attend. Make no mistake: The financial feasibility of each school’s cost was a major part of making my decision, as it was for almost everyone I knew.
Becoming eighty is a matter of life or death. I chose life. It is a much better position to be in, and it’s easier on your back.
I either had to concentrate on fighting, or I had to help my family. I chose my family. I love my mom; I love my family.
Buddha’ is my third film but I chose to release ‘Hate Story’ first because I wanted commercial success.
With some of the samples that I chose to use, tracking down the person that owns the publishing has become a task.
‘State’ can be a word that is a noun or a verb or an adverb – it’s kind of why I chose that title. It’s not to confound the audience but to keep me from painting myself into a cul-de-sac in the early stages of making a record by having too high concept or having some really strict set of rules I have to adhere to.
I chose Stanford for Stanford and not for the coach. I was going to Stanford regardless.
I’m actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make people happy and entertain them, without really being there. You can make a very short appearance and then say, ‘I’ve got something on the stove, gotta go!’
I’m sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.
I’ll tell you what, I had complete control on ‘Unleashed.’ I directed, produced, chose the musician, picked the costumes, and everything. I never had anyone saying, ‘I don’t like this and I don’t like that.’ The studio, Universal, were easy. It was this weird movie no one cared about.
I think that the reason Clinton chose Gore was that he was an example of what Clinton was like. He was kind of almost like the yellow magic marker that you use to highlight the text so that you can really remember what are the most salient features of it.
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
ThinThread was not the program of record of my predecessor, Ken Minihan, OK. I did not make ThinThread the program of record while I was director. After I left in 2005, Keith Alexander also chose not to make ThinThread the program of record.
There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls.
I know one of the blessings of being a mother is getting hips and I’m not going to have that because I chose not to have kids, so I believe God is going to give me some hips if I work for it.
I chose a career in the kitchen because the thought of sitting and doing the same thing every day and being stationary was not something that I could get my head around.
The more painful incidents of racism I chose to forget, to suffer in silence, or use humour to deflect rather than confront. I didn’t want to be the angry black man.
It was very important to me that I be my own person. That’s why I chose show business.
I don’t think it’s an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.
Thanks to my father, I didn’t have to face the tough side of life. Probably that’s why I always chose love over money.
The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor’s outfit. A pity we had to give them back.
Travelling to make television programmes means I have some unusual food memories. In Pasto, Colombia, I was taken to a restaurant where I chose my meat for the evening from a cage of white rats. It tasted perfectly good – like rabbit.
The path that I chose was simple – it was the exact path I should’ve taken, and I have no regrets at all.
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
I chose to invest everything in my own private companies.
I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I’m from.
But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.
My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.
My whole initial goal was to be a comedian, so it’s not like I chose to do a TV show out of nowhere. It’s kind of always been goal to do a TV show.
Past leaders chose deregulated globalization. They said it would be happy; it turned out to be atrocious.
People sometimes say, ‘Why do you choose a part?’ and sometimes it’s not that I chose it but that that was the one that came along.
I think I chose wisely. When it came down to it, I knew I was a better goalkeeper than I was a bowler.
Paul Newman made eight of my favorite movies. He chose a certain kind of movie I really identified with.
I chose a public platform to come out. I wanted to have an impact with it.
I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.
Mixed martial arts chose me. After all the trouble I’d been in, it felt really good fit to find a discipline to train and build a community around my goals.
In my 10th exams, I stood first with 80 percent but instead of picking science for my further studies, I chose arts… just so that I could continue to dance.
I knew that the UFC and that mixed martial arts in general was going to prosper because I was extremely selfish and cocky, and I thought: ‘Hey, if I like it, everyone’s gonna like it.’ Well, it came to fruition, and I chose a character that was not a far departure from myself at all.
Sexuality is very fluid, but I never chose to be gay.
I have visited slums in Mumbai, I have visited slums in other countries, but nothing is like North Korea because North Korean starvation, it’s a systematic starvation by a country that chose to starve us.
We chose to use a surrogate as the way we wanted to start our family, particularly as I was traveling across the globe on a stressful schedule to get stores open.
I am into professional wrestling. Only Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling can qualify in Olympics. I chose professional wrestling for fame and limelight and good money.
In the end, I didn’t think I was good enough to use sax as a stage performer to get where I wanted, and thank God I chose my voice as my instrument instead. You need to be honest with yourself, and I was.
By the time that I left Porto I had a few offers, and I probably chose the club that I shouldn’t have gone to.
Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
