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Choice Quotes
"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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"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."
62
"Don't water anything that you don't want to grow in your life."
55
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."
36
"I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me."
20
"We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice."
18
"I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward."
18
"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise."
16
"Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness."
16
"After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation."
15
"A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game."
13
"We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice."
13
"Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require."
13
"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice."
12
"'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices."
11
"We must believe in free will, we have no choice."
11
"To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice."
11
"The tree of possibilities: life as it reveals itself to a man arriving, astonished, at the threshold of his adult life: an abundant treetop canopy filled with bees singing. And he thinks he understands why she never showed him the letters: she wanted to hear the murmur of the tree by herself, without him, because he, Jean-Marc, represented the abolition of all possibilities, he was the reduction, (even though it was a happy reduction) of her life to a single possibility."
11
"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."
10
"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."
10
"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."
10
"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."
10
"And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents."
10
"And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference."
10
"Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times."
10
"The point of cities is multiplicity of choice."
9
"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."
9
"And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit."
9
"Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs."
9
"Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make."
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