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"Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?"
Sarah Dessen
"Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?"
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"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."
Theodor Adorno
"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."
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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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"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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"There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great Valley Center."
Alan Autry
"There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great Valley Center."
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"Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content."
Samuel Johnson
"Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content."
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"We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to."
Paulo Coelho
"We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to."
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"Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice."
Donnie Wahlberg
"Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice."
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"Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives."
Richard Bach
"Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives."
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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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"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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"I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice."
Julia Louis Dreyfus
"I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice."
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"We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts."
Yakov Smirnoff
"We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts."
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"The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization."
Michael Polanyi
"The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization."
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"The key to your universe is that you can choose."
Frederick Carl Frieseke
"The key to your universe is that you can choose."
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"I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes."
Daniel Johns
"I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes."
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"Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make."
Solomon Burke
"Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make."
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"I think that certainly my choices empower me."
Kyra Sedgwick
"I think that certainly my choices empower me."
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"I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make."
Javier Bardem
"I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make."
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"The look in his eyes turned a little wild. "That's the only reason I'm letting you go. If I had any choice--""You do," she said "Wed can all sit here and let him die. Or you can let Eve go on her wild-ass rescue mission and get herself killed. Or you can let sweet, calm, reasonable Claire go do some talking."He shook his head. His long, elegant hands, which looked so at home wrapped around a guitar, closed into fists. "Guess that means there's no choice.""Not really," Claire agreed. "I was kind of lying about that choice thing."
Rachel Caine
"The look in his eyes turned a little wild. "That's the only reason I'm letting you go. If I had any choice--""You do," she said "Wed can all sit here and let him die. Or you can let Eve go on her wild-ass rescue mission and get herself killed. Or you can let sweet, calm, reasonable Claire go do some talking."He shook his head. His long, elegant hands, which looked so at home wrapped around a guitar, closed into fists. "Guess that means there's no choice.""Not really," Claire agreed. "I was kind of lying about that choice thing."
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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."
John Frankenheimer
"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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"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."
Stephen Hopkins
"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 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."
Alonzo Church
"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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"We must believe in free will, we have no choice."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"We must believe in free will, we have no choice."
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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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"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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"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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"My choices in films are spontaneous."
Nicole Kidman
"My choices in films are spontaneous."
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"There is no banquet but some dislike something in it."
Thomas Fuller
"There is no banquet but some dislike something in it."
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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."
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
"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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"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."
Barbara Castle
"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."
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"Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs."
Leonardo DiCaprio
"Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs."
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"In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects."
Marcus V. Pollio
"In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects."
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"In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results."
George P. Baker
"In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results."
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"But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable."
John Frankenheimer
"But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable."
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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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"We hold our hate too choice a thing, for light and careless lavishing."
William Watson
"We hold our hate too choice a thing, for light and careless lavishing."
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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."
Jackie Weaver
"'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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"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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"I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution."
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"The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice."
Theodor Adorno
"The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice."
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"When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice."
Patrick Marber
"When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice."
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"In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them."
Audrey Tautou
"In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them."
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"How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?"
David Foster Wallace
"How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?"
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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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"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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"In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones."
Amber Frey
"In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones."
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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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"You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again."
Pat Riley
"You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again."
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"No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down."
David Copperfield
"No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down."
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