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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well - it's good for the environment and to be fair it's also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

I walk where I choose to walk.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.

I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.

I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.

Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.

I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.

Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.

Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.