#choose

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#actually #always #american #attitude #believe

There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports. ↗

— Rebecca Lobo

#anything #athlete #because #being #best

I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#automatically #boss #choose #different #eye

We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in that equation every time. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#about #choice #choose #credit #credit rating

In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#break #choice #choose #clean #economic

Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have a God complex, well this person has a Satan complex. And the doctor chooses to treat him scientifically. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#characters #chooses #complex #complexes #doctor

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#each #express #language #making #might

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#choose #facts #french #french people #hiding

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#choose #circumstances #class #creating #every

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#assert #capabilities #choose #commandment #different