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Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.

People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have.

I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.

The Democrats complain; I choose to compete.

I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

First you date the songs, and then you get engaged and then you marry them. They have to stand the test of time, because they are going to be yours for the next 20, 30, 40 years. So you had better choose right.

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.

Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

Everybody has to make their own decisions about how they choose to behave.

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.

I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.