Quotes with choose

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  • Auguste Rodin I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Oscar Wilde I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alan Cohen I claim my heart's desire, and I choose my direction. I will attain my chosen goal.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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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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  • Anne Tyler I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Vikram Seth I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • Orson Welles I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • James Boswell I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
    James Boswell
    Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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  • Noam Chomsky I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Warren Mitchell I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my ''spaceship'' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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  • Arthur Keith I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Alanis Morissette I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Taylor Swift I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
    Taylor Swift
    American singer-songwriter (1989 - )
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  • Groucho Marx I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Anais Nin I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Carl Schurz Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
    Address, Faneuil Hall, Boston (18 April 1859)
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Frank Moore Colby If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Dave Barry If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Marianne Williamson If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
    Marianne Williamson
    American writer (1952 - )
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