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I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.
Paul D. Boyer
Tendency
Make
Limited
Information
Choices
Lucky
Based
Right
We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
Penelope Lively
Constantly
Make
Happenstance
Choices
If I return to Spain someday, Atletico Madrid would be one of my top choices without doubt. It is a club that I have a lot of affection for.
Pepe Reina
Affection
Club
Doubt
Top
Would
Would-Be
Madrid
Atletico
Someday
Return
Without
Lot
Spain
Choices
I think all gay men are used to people saying no to them, to people not giving them choices.
Perfume Genius
Saying
Gay
People
Men
Giving
Think
Them
Choices
Used
I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.
Peter Dinklage
Time
Day
Happy
Fault
End Of The Day
Else
Our
Characters
Jobs
Wished
Because
Makes
None
End
Anyone
Anyone Else
Us
Choices
Who
Play
Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with.
Peter Singer
Time
Me
You
World
Immediate
Rumsfeld
Could
Had
He
Contact
Make
Parts
Said
Report
Get
Any
Going
Depends
Want
Which
Choices
Right
There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.
Peter Weir
You
Words
Fear
Become
Too
Way
Seem
Case
Rather
Could
Put
Self-Conscious
Almost
Ideas
Understood
Arrived
Banal
Personal
Any
Which
Them
Meaning
Choices
Full
Many
Deeply
A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments.
Phil Klay
Great
Important
Aggressive
Marines
Soldiers
Constrained
Had
Journalism
Environments
Pieces
Make
How
Command
Iraq
Lot
Influence
Where
Choices
Moments
Sudden
Violent
Set
Women should have choices, and women should feel good in what they wear.
Phoebe Philo
Good
Feel Good
Women
Wear
Feel
Choices
Should
In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others.
Pope Benedict XVI
Freedom
Rights
Responsibility
Made
Every
Assume
Others
Relations
Entering
Correlation
Between
Name
His
Person
Duties
Which
Choices
Her
Consequence
Loving the church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever before oneself the good of the church and not one's own.
Pope Benedict XVI
Good
Courage
Church
Before
Own
Difficult
Oneself
Having
Also
Make
Trying
Loving
Choices
Means
Ever
Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me. Some of my choices have been more successful than others.
Powers Boothe
Success
Character
Me
First
Think
Others
Some
About
More
Had
Since
Always
Material
Been
Than
Story
Success Story
Successful
Choices
Elements
Presented
Two
I'm glad I made business investments, because it gave me the confidence financially to make brave choices. If I hadn't done that, I'd still have been trying to play 19-year-olds in films. I know there are other avenues for me.
Preity Zinta
Me
Confidence
Business
Made
Films
Other
Gave
Financially
Glad
Investments
Know
Make
Because
Still
Been
Trying
Brave
Done
Avenues
Choices
Play
Success in M&As comes with executing with vigour along with the obvious right choices that you got to make.
Punit Renjen
Success
You
Along
Executing
Obvious
Make
Got
Choices
Vigour
Right
I am conscious of making choices that balance the performance and commercial aspects. It's easy to get stereotyped in this industry.
Raashi Khanna
Balance
Easy
Performance
Industry
Making
Am
Commercial
Get
Choices
Aspects
Conscious
Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.
Rachael Taylor
Sometimes
Young
Think
Luxurious
Incredibly
Late
Our
Our Lives
Adult
Stuff
Make
Any
Paths
Just
Young Adults
Different
Which
Confronted
Really
Choice
Choices
Certainly
Choose
Many
Fill
Lives
Happiness doesn't just happen. It must be pursued. And if the pursuit of the 'ultimate currency' of happiness helps us choose occupations that confer present and future benefit, and these choices, in turn, motivate us to succeed, this strikes me as perhaps the most powerful non-cognitive skill of all.
Rachel Simmons
Happiness
Future
Me
Benefit
Strikes
Must
Pursued
Pursuit
Powerful
Perhaps
Most
Most Powerful
Occupations
Motivate
Ultimate
Currency
Just
Happen
Succeed
Turn
Us
Skill
Choices
Choose
Helps
Present
Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.
Rachel True
Life
Happy
Sometimes
Whatever
Pumping
Kinda
Beats
Come
Know
How
Wonder
Huh
McDonald
Choices
Working
Acting
Sappy
Why
Gas
It is difficult to constantly make courageous choices.
Radhika Apte
Difficult
Constantly
Make
Courageous
Choices
Bad choices make good stories.
Rajkumar Hirani
Good
Bad
Bad Choices
Good Stories
Make
Stories
Choices
If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.
Ramez Naam
Today
You
Technology
Change
Yourself
Power
Energy
Down
Society
Releasing
Total
Horrific
Only
Had
Powered
New
Mostly
Around
Climate
Climate Change
Reducing
New Technology
Doom
Burning
Fuels
Planet
CO2
Choices
Usage
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Carbon
Two
I had a couple rough patches early in my career. I think I might have made some bad choices here and there.
Randy Orton
Made
Think
Bad
Bad Choices
Some
Had
Couple
Patches
Might
Choices
Rough
Early
Here
Career
At times, parents foist their own choices on kids and try to get them to read the classics. But kids have very high filters and don't take to it. At other times, parents simply don't know what books to select for their children and end up giving books that aren't appropriate.
Ravi Subramanian
Try
Parents
Giving
Own
Other
Filters
Appropriate
Books
Kids
High
Classics
Select
Take
Simply
Know
Read
End
Up
Very
Times
Get
Children
Them
Choices
The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.
Raymond E. Feist
Latter
Betrayal
Outside
Put
Felt
Issue
Were
Integrate
Continuity
Comment
Central
Them
Choices
Ignore
Games
Chose
Need
We can't constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people in dire straits who make bad choices.
Rebecca Hall
People
Heroes
Too
Other
Tell
Bad
Bad Choices
Constantly
Dire
About
Make
Hear
Stories
Choices
Who
Companies have choices to make about what extent they're handling their users' content.
Rebecca MacKinnon
About
Make
Content
Handling
Choices
Companies
Users
Extent
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