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The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

You can't be a mod and a rocker. You have to choose sides.

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

I'd never choose to turn the clock back.

If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

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.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

I didn't choose BYU, I like to think it chose me.

The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.

To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.

I don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

I don't think you choose whether or not you're gay.

Choose people who lift you up.

If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

It's the gap in the teeth. My friends say I look like Shrek - some of my friends - and you can't choose your friends, so what can I say?

Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.

We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

The Malagasy people must have the liberty to choose their own future.

I've never been very cookie cutter. If I choose something different from the status quo, it's my responsibility and my choice to live my life that way.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that 'The Book of Mormon' was something I got to be part of. I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.

I've always been obsessed about how people choose - or are destined - for the paths they take.

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

If the United States has to accept the U.N. resolutions, we have to generalize it across the board. We can't just pick and choose where we impose and accept the U.N. resolution and don't accept them. U.N. Resolution 242 is very clear and states very clearly that Israel has to go back to the borders of the pre-war of 1967.

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.