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

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground.

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

I don't like the negative of reality tv - the 'you're no good, so you have to leave, I choose you, but I thought you really loved me.' It's all about how bad people are and I just hate that. I like Pimp my Ride where someone is helping somebody.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

To invent is to discern, to choose.

If you look back at my marathons and ask whether I would swap one of them for my one balls-up, of course I would. But you can't choose. You have to make the best of it on the day.

Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence.

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

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.