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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."
F. Murray Abraham
"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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"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."
Tom G. Palmer
"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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"I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end."
Edward Dmytryk
"I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end."
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"95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want."
Merle Haggard
"95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want."
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"Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done."
Timothy Geithner
"Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done."
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"It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions."
Karolina Kurkova
"It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions."
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"I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way."
Jennifer Connelly
"I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way."
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"I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it."
Hosni Mubarak
"I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it."
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"Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving."
Eriq La Salle
"Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving."
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"It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency."
Penelope Lively
"It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency."
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"After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit."
Terry Bradshaw
"After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit."
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"The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe."
John Prescott
"The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe."
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"To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country."
Ari Fleischer
"To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country."
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"Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice."
Michael N. Castle
"Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice."
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"I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place."
Louise Jameson
"I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place."
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"I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention."
Candice Bergen
"I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention."
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"After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland."
Robin Wright Penn
"After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland."
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"Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents."
Tatyana Ali
"Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents."
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"2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation."
Marco Rubio
"2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation."
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"The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped."
Robert Fritz
"The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped."
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"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."
Milan Kundera
"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."
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"Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started."
Ben Linder
"Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started."
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"The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she liked my amusing facial expression."
Michael Bassey Johnson
"The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she liked my amusing facial expression."
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"My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you."
Jack Bowman
"My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you."
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"So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes."
Sarah Jessica Parker
"So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes."
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"Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice."
Douglas Horton
"Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice."
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"I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great."
Lyle Lovett
"I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great."
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"When you have kids, it limits you. That was a choice I made."
Alison Moyet
"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."
Alfred A. Montapert
"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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"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."
Richard Price
"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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"And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents."
John Engler
"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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"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."
Leo Kottke
"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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"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."
Patricia Ireland
"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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"It wasn't until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed."
Vanessa Kerry
"It wasn't until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed."
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"At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing."
David Soul
"At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing."
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"Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years."
John Mica
"Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years."
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"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
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"The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice."
Roger Wicker
"The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice."
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"I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information."
Paul D. Boyer
"I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information."
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"It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
J. K. Rowling
"It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
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"Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity."
Stephen Cambone
"Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity."
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"My choices were never wrong."
Anthony Anderson
"My choices were never wrong."
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"Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give."
David O. McKay
"Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give."
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"I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice."
Jack Kevorkian
"I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice."
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"Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point."
Josh Lucas
"Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point."
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"It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely."
Ted Kulongoski
"It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely."
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"If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow."
Heath Ledger
"If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow."
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"There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start."
Stephen Hopkins
"There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start."
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"All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right."
Jack Kevorkian
"All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right."
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"It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego."
Taylor Hackford
"It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego."
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