Multiple Choice Quotes

• Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Hate, Philosophy, Lying

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• Flexibility comes from having multiple choices; wisdom comes from having multiple perspectives.

  Robert Dilts

  Perspective, Choices, Flexibility

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• Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

  Ken Robinson

  Choices, Soul, Mind

  "Fertile minds need feeding". Interview with Jessica Shepherd, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2009.

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• To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.

  Robert Breault

  Choices, Students, Tough

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• Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

  Alan Blinder

  Book, Teaching, Choices

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• ...You know something, don't you?" "I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific." "Just answer the question." "True/false or multiple choice?

  Neal Shusterman

  Choices, Needs, Inquiry

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• I think this reason why girls don’t do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, ‘All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what’s it going to be?’ We all know what was chosen.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Girl, Stupid, Thinking

  "Big Fat Lies" by Steven Rendell, Jim Naureckas, and Jeff Cohen, www.motherjones.com. May 1995.

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• When I am given a multiple choice test I choose not to take it.

  Demetri Martin

  Choices, Tests, Given

  Twitter post from Jun 22, 2012

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• Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.

  David Mamet

  School, Interesting, Choices

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• We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.

  Joan Didion

  Suicide, Choices, Looks

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.5, Zola Books

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• If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice.

  Alan Moore

  Past, Choices, Ifs

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Comic book by Alan Moore, collider.com. 1988.

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• In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.

  Ali Abdullah Saleh

  Love, Peace, Order

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• Today's Multiple Choice Thought
  There is no place where a loving touch so completely compensates for an unskilled hand as in:
  a. the bedroom
  b. the nursery
  c. the garden

  Robert Breault

  Love, Garden, Hands

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• The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.

  Stephen King

  Choices, Daily Life, Possibility

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• I'm in favor of it as long as it's multiple choice.

  Kurt Rambis

  Humor, Long, Choices

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• We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.

  Joan Didion

  Suicide, Order, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 13, 2011

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• In his mercy, He sent the storm itself to make us seek help. And then knowing that we're likely to get the wrong answer, He gives us a multiple choice exam with only one option to choose from: the correct answer. The hardship itself is ease. By taking away all other hand-holds, all other multiple choice options, He has made the test simple.It's never easy to stand when the storm hits. And that's exactly the point. By sending the wind, He brings us to our knees: the perfect position to pray

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Simple, Hands, Wind

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• To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously, to allow what you're reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers, the so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?

  Adrienne Rich

  Reading, Mean, Numbers

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• Fundamental questions are being asked about the future of the Eurozone and therefore the shape of the EU itself. Opportunities to advance our national interest are clearly becoming apparent. We should focus on how to make the most of this, not pursue a parliamentary process for a multiple choice referendum.

  David Cameron

  Opportunity, Choices, Focus

  House of Commons, Oral Answers to Questions, www.publications.parliament.uk. October 24, 2011.

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• They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There’s no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

  Heather Matarazzo

  School, Class, Choices

  "Heather Matarazzo: ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’ changed my life". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. March 22, 2011.

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• You love tests?" "Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?

  Nora Roberts

  Choices, True Or False, Questions And Answers

  Nora Roberts (2008). “Tribute”, p.235, Penguin

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• And you are worth the time it takes to take the time to get to know you. We've managed to muttle through the awkward stage of i like you and you like me, but when we both finally said 'yes' life became a multiple choice test, not knowing anything we became each others best guess. and, holding your hand is less like exploration and more like discovery. lady, i don't have to study you to be sure. you're the choice i made before i knew what the other choices were

  Shane Koyczan

  I Like You, Discovery, Hands

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• Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process of regularized formatting had begun. Facebook went further, organizing people into multiple-choice identities while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view entirely. If a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive. People accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other forms

  Jaron Lanier

  Government, Views, Ideas

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• Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Dog, Small Numbers, Years

  Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House

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• If you show a poetry professor your shiny new multiple choice teaching technology, he will invite you to exit his office.

  Andrew Ng

  Teaching, Technology, Office

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