[first lines] title card: In the United States, the average age of entry into the commercial sex industry is 13 years old. Shaneiqua: I got into the life when I was 12 years old. I was still entering into high school at the time. voice: I was in the life since I was 16. Ebony: I was 13. Martha: I was 14. unknown: I was 15. Carolina: 16. Dominique: 13 1/2, going on 14. in shadows: I got in it when I was 12. Kim: I started at the age of 13, and the sexploitation is like, at the age 13, what choices to I have?
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Walter Sparrow: There's no such thing as destiny. There are only different choices. Some choices are easy, some aren't. Those are the really important ones, the ones that define us as people.
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
Joe Black: I don't care Bill. I love her. William Parrish: How perfect for you - to take whatever you want because it pleases you. That's not love. Joe Black: Then what is it? William Parrish: Some aimless infatuation which, for the moment, you feel like indulging - it's missing everything that matters. Joe Black: Which is what? William Parrish: Trust, responsibility, taking the weight for your choices and feelings, and spending the rest of your life living up to them. And above all, not hurting the object of your love. Joe Black: So that's what love is according to William Parrish? William Parrish: Multiply it by infinity, and take it to the depth of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about. Joe Black: Those were my words. William Parrish: They're mine now.
Han: Life's simple, you make choices and you don't look back.
I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely
John Glass: Friendship and love. Hatred. Courage. Fear. Honesty and truth. Forgiveness. You make a million choices in life. Each one causes a ripple.
John Myers: What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.
Richard Cooper: You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.
Stan: You're a LAWYER, Jonah. You could have a hundred jobs - all of them excellent. What is it with your generation that they wander around aimlessly... Tim: But Dad, it's like we have all this pressure to achieve, because we've been told from birth we could be anything we want to be. But the thing is - wait, let me finish - it's paralyzing, because we THINK we can do anything, but really, we can only do one thing at a time, and then when we devote ourselves to it, it's just one thing; so we move from job to job, trying to find that thing which is the "anything" we want to be. Stan: Seems like you've all been spoiled, that's all. May: Stan... Tim: It's typical of you not to try to understand me. Stan: I may not understand some... things about you, but SOME things I DO understand. You think we didn't get bored? You think we didn't dream about other things? I had my sisters, and then you and your mother, to think about! May: Jonah, you have more choices and opportunities than most people in the world. How can you complain so much? Tim: I'm not complaining. I just want to make a mark. Stan: You think all of my students don't think I've made a mark? You think you're not my mark? I can't think of something I am more proud to leave behind me in the world. [Jonah looks at his father, who looks away and stands] Stan: Now I'm going to see about that pipe int he basement.
Casanova: Seventh Circle, huh? Dante described it perfectly. Bleeding trees waiting for Judgment Day, where we can all hang ourselves from our own branches. It's not that easy...”Doctor." To find rest takes a real genius. It's all a matter of discernment. Now, R.C. Sproul said we're not sinners because we sin, but we sin because we are sinners. In more accessible terms, we're not evil because of the evil we do, but we do evil because we *are* evil. Yeah. Now what choices do such people have? It's not like we have any options.
Zack Stone: Mr. Gaunt, how do you advise someone when he has to make a difficult decision? They have two choices and they don't like either of them. Gaunt, the undertaker: I tell them a third choice is always possible. Zack Stone: Really! Gaunt, the undertaker: Yes, and that's when I bring out the mahogany casket. It's pricier than a pine or a walnut, but it's worth it.
With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.
ADA Kelly Gaffney: I gotta tell ya, I don't like it. ADA Tracey Kibre: Just trying to put the bad guy away, not win the Nobel Peace Prize. ADA Kelly Gaffney: You excused those jurors because you thought they'd sympathize. ADA Tracey Kibre: Look, when you are first chair you can have whoever you want on your jury: latinos, lawyers, convicted felons... Go crazy! Right now, you support my choices whether or not you think they're aggressive. ADA Kelly Gaffney: Or cheap. I was being polite when I said aggressive. I'm sorry, but I think is out of line to hide behind Hernandez like that. ADA Tracey Kibre: Well, I don't care what you think. ADA Kelly Gaffney: Oh. ADA Tracey Kibre: And neither does Angelina Martinez. ADA Kelly Gaffney: Angelina? ADA Tracey Kibre: Yeah, Angelina. ADA Kelly Gaffney: Wha... so it worked? ADA Tracey Kibre: Yep, we changed her gender. ADA Kelly Gaffney: Well, I guess I'll be drafting a motion.
Bill Rago: All I know is, the choices you make dictate the life you lead. "To thine own self be true."
Eugene: Sometimes we all wonder how things come to be. A chain of events: A leads to B leads to C leads to Z. Each life is made up of big decisions and each day is made up of a million little decisions. What shirt to wear, what street to walk on, what to eat for lunch. Now all of these seemingly inconsequential choices may change your life forever. But who can handle that kind of responsibility? It would paralyze you to think about it. So you have to trust your instinct, what the Greeks might call your character. You better pray to whatever god you believe in that your character knows what the hell it's doing. I thought I was a man of character. Good character. Then I made a mistake. A bad one that changed everything. That's why I found myself walking into a lousy L.A. bar to buy some Phenolcitrate - -synthetic heroin, my personal favorite. See, when I got high, the chain of events disappeared. No past, no future, just the sweet and sticky now. But before I could get home that night with my bag of goodies something happened. I did a good thing. One good deed that started another chain that I wasn't ready for. A ride I had no business taking.
In the boundaryless forests, there
Russ Cargill: [enters the Oval Office] President Schawarzenegger. President Schwarzenegger: Ja. That is me. Russ Cargill: The pollution in Springfield has reached crisis levels. President Schwarzenegger: Ach! Everything is "crisis this" and "end-of-the-world that"! No one opens with a joke! I miss Danny DeVito. Russ Cargill: You like jokes, huh? Well, stop me if you've heard this one. [holds up cage with the mutant squirrel] President Schwarzenegger: [gasp] Look at all those angry eyes and pointy teeth! It's like Christmas at the Kennedy Compound! Russ Cargill: Mr. President, you chose me, Russ Cargill, most successful man in America, to head the EPA, the least successful government agency. Why did I take the job? Because I'm just a rich guy who wants to kick some ass for good old Mother Earth. I want to give something back. Not the money, but something. That's why I've narrowed your choices down to five unthinkable options. [spreads the files on the President's desk] Russ Cargill: Each one will cause untold misery and... President Schwarzenegger: [points to File #3] I pick Number Three! Russ Cargill: Really? You don't want to read them first? President Schwarzenegger: I was elected to *lead*, not to *read*. Number Three!
Ben Holmes: Bridge, ya know, I mean, what I always thought was that there was this one, one perfect person for everybody in the world, you know, and when you found that person, uh, the rest of the world just kinda magically faded away and... and you know, the two of you would just be inside this kind of protective bubble. But there is no bubble, or if there is, we have to make it. I just think life is more than a series of moments, you know, it's... it's... we can make choices and we can choose to protect the people we love and that's what makes us who we are, and those are the real miracles! Stop me when it becomes glaringly obvious that I have no idea what I am talking about...
The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.
We are our choices.
In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life and vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all.
It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Not to decide is to decide.
The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.
If Pavlov tested his cat he would have failed.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them
Everything has a price.
We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
...but with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I had learned to take naps. Up until five months ago
{Calpurnia)
The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.
Im still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have been a question of right or wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that,in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.
If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those that I preside over, and get no answer from Him, and then do the very best that my judgement will teach me, He is bound to own and honor that transaction, and He will do so to all intents and purposes.
Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?
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