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If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

I don't think I'm too thin at all. I understand when people say, 'Well your face gets gaunt,' but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-written one that's been thrown my way after a lot of girls have passed on it.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from.

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose. It was a war that was declared against us as Americans, against our people, against our Constitution.

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

It's your body and your life and you have an absolute right to do with it as you choose.

I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be.

I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.