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"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."
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"If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go."
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"We must believe in free will, we have no choice."
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"Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors."
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"Don't water anything that you don't want to grow in your life."
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"I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice."
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"When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice."
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"Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness."
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"You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be."
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"When a man is shooting a handgun, it's just like he is shooting because that's his job, and he has no other choice. It's no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it's really something."
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"What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make."
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"All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!"
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"No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice."
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"On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break."
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"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
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"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."
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"When you have kids, it limits you. That was a choice I made."
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"Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices."
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"We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice."
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"I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do."
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"Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent."
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"Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on."
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"The point of cities is multiplicity of choice."
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"The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions."
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"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."
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"Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice."
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"Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it."
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"In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones."
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"If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast."
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"I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices."
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"Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice."
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"I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made."
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"Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play."
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"A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational."
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"The Fed chairmanship is not the kind of job where you want to surprise everyone with your choice of a total unknown. You don't want to surprise Wall Street."
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"If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice."
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"Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice."
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"And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents."
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"I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location."
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"You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house."
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"I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue."
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"Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen."
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"'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices."
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"And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference."
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"But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe."
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"It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes."
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"The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices."
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"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."
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"If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy."
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"Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court."
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