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You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB.

The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.

I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with.

One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an "old" young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.

I like to think that I'm trying to choose love over most things, but that's my choice.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.

Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.