Quotes with choice-makers

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  • Bill Delahunt Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.
    Bill Delahunt
    American lawyer and politician (1941 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.
    Prodigal Summer
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Barry Schwartz How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Vincent Van Gogh I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Bayazid Bastami I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
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  • Antonio Tabucchi I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Bryn Terfel I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Sylvia Plath I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Jeanette Winterson I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.
    Lighthousekeeping (2006) 186
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Woody Allen I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bruce Greenwood I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Berenice Marlohe I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.
    Berenice Marlohe
    French actress
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  • Bob Dylan I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, ''Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.''
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Maria Montessori If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Brigham Young If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Brigham Young If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Bill Maris If I'm an entrepreneur, and I have a term sheet from Sequoia and Kleiner, that's the safe choice. Google Ventures is the brave choice.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Bill Flores If our goal is to provide health care to our veterans, why does it need to be in the bricks and mortar of bureaucracy of the VA? Why can't you give them an insurance card and let them go to a health care provider of their choice?
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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