Ving Rhames

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

American Actor

Jack Monroe

Gas prices and train fares seem to be the two commodities for modern British life that base their prices on a whim, or numbers plucked out of thin air, without a thought to the real cost to those for whom those price hikes mean unimaginable sacrifices in their day to day lives.

British Journalist

Sally Rooney

I think it's best for me to kind of just plough on doing whatever interests me, just following my own whims, because otherwise, I would think, 'Oh well, I have to write something now that really represents my generation or that really represents young Irish people.

Irish Author

Geoffrey Boycott

I always loved the Yorkshire members and was passionate about playing for the county, but the people who were running the club made it at times unbearable for me. The rulers had a history of doing what they wanted and sacking players seemingly on a whim.

British Athlete

Thomas Merton

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

American Author

Farhan Akhtar

I think it is important to time yourself to make the right choices. It's not responsible to go ahead and say a 'yes' or 'no' on a whim.

Indian Director

bell hooks

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

American Critic

Asif Ali Zardari

As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in luxury.

Pakistani Politician

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Having achieved something so special as peace, it is criminal to throw it away on a whim.

British Politician

Lance Reddick

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

Refers to an action taken without planning or forethought, often on impulse.

Spontaneous Action

Indicates an action or decision guided more by emotions than logic.

Emotionally Driven

Suggests a person's behavior cannot be predicted because of sudden desires.

Unpredictable Behavior

In mining, it's a device for lifting objects, not a desire or impulse.

Mining Equipment

It's a specific term, so use it only when discussing mining operations.

Technical Term

Shows a quirky or unpredictable behavior, nothing negative implied.

Capricious Nature

Often positive in creative contexts, suggesting imaginative or original thoughts.

Creativity Inspired

Sometimes a decision made on a whim may seem illogical at first but lead to positive outcomes.

Impulsive Decision

 That the whims of adolescence are too dangerous for your breath, that you cannot simply be curious, that you are not afforded the luxury of making a mistake, that someone's implicit bias might be the reason you don't wake up in the morning. But this cannot be what defines us. Because we have parents who raised us to understand

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 Throughout her life, Janie frequently feels she’s at the whim of natural and spiritual forces that can shift the course of her existence without warning. And when she finally does find true love, these unknowable powers continue to act on her, threatening to destroy the life she's so painstakingly built.

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 But that means recognizing that technology that tracks who we are, what we do, what we say, and even in some cases, what we think, is a form of advanced weaponry. And these weapons are growing too powerful, available to the highest bidder, and according to the whims of the spy bazaar.

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 but including economic migrants and climate refugees. We need to demand that refugees get a fair shot at seeking protection in our countries by ensuring that they have access to council and by creating independent courts that are not subject to the political whims of the president.

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 We are incredibly vulnerable to the whims of our own galaxy. A single, large asteroid could take us out forever. To survive we have to reach beyond the home planet. Think what a tragedy it would be if all that humans have accomplished were suddenly obliterated.

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 As a recovering corporate executive, I know we all feel like our time isn’t our own, like other people are controlling our calendars and we’re simply reacting to their whims. But calendar creep isn’t inevitable. There's so much in the world we can't control.

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 pernicious she what she's doing is instead of helping real victims she's got the police force looking for her she's the center of attention actual lives are at stake and here they are catering to her whims and I think that that is what

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 had expanded his sphere of influence to include the courts of Europe in st. Petersburg the Tsar and his family lived in a breathtaking palace with a thousand rooms hundreds of servants attended their every whim and it seemed like a

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 who are also subject to the whims of law enforcement if they're caught. Law enforcement is supposed to identify victims and prosecute traffickers. But out of an estimated 21 million victims of human trafficking in the world,

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 Because I needed the doctor to know that this was not a whim, not reactionary, not your 20-something looking to go out and party without fear of getting knocked up that this supported something integral to who I was.

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