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• I would like you to rise each morning and know that you are heterosexual and that you choose to be heterosexual - that you are and choose to be a member of a privileged and dominant class, one of your privileges being not to notice.

  Marilyn Frye

  Morning, Heterosexuality Is, Class

  Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr

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• When you're young and you get to choose between sleep and sex you take sex everytime. You start getting older, you get to choose between sleep and sex, you choose sleep and just hope you have a dream about sex.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Dream, Sex

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• Whatever road you choose, I'm right behind you win or lose.

  Rod Stewart

  Friendship, Winning, Behind You

  Song: Forever Young, Album: Out of Order

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• Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

  Edmund Burke

  Agents, Ambassadors, Politics

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.172, Penguin

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• In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the city everyone does not-only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, People, Doe

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.58, Vintage

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

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Gay, Thinking

  "Rosie O'Donnell: Being a Gay Mom". abcnews.go.com. March 14.

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• As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.

  Katarina Witt

  Sports, Passion, Athlete

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• A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrees, and build toward dessert. Unfortunately, most sites are built like a cafeteria. You pick whatever you want. That sounds good at first, but soon it doesn't matter what you choose to do. Everything is bland and the same.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Moving, Gourmet, Sound

  "Go with the flow". Interview with John Geirland, www.wired.com. September 1, 1996.

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• The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

  Charles J. Givens

  Frustration, Past, Goal

  Charles J. Givens (1991). “More Wealth Without Risk: How to Develop a Personal Fortune Without Going Out on a Limb”

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

  Bryan Ferry

  Failure, People, Sound

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• You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen.

  James Spader

  Years, Two, Facts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.

  Alan Cumming

  People, Done, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There will be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you choose to do, and there will be a grace and power present in all of your movements.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Perfect, Grace

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• I really just drew off of where we are now, with reality TV. You can't help but see a lot of it. You choose to watch some, but with some, you just can't help but hear it and see it. It's just piercing in your brain. That piercing is what I was tapping into , with whatever they were doing to pierce into the minds of everybody. It takes a certain kind of person to shut your mind off to the consequences and just try to get results. That's what I was going for - results.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Reality, Brain, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sacrifice, Self, Desire

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Strong, Mind, May

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• When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

  Gary Zukav

  Generosity, Forgiving, Lenses

  Gary Zukav (2014). “The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Success is a very scary thing especially after you choose something and everything starts coming at you. It's absolutely frightening because the mind does things. It says, 'You've got to hold on to this or get away from this.

  Nick Nolte

  Success, Scary, Mind

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• If you're not a big club, you choose one competition and you fight in that competition and forget the others. Big clubs - we cannot do this

  Jose Mourinho

  Fighting, Competition, Clubs

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• When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite.You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.

  Barrows Dunham

  Ignorance, Class, Differences

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• Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

  Carl Schurz

  Love, Change, Sports

  Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile

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• Comparison with something that is better is the thief of joy. Comparison with something that is worse is a joy - full of relief and gratitude! You cannot always choose what happens to you or your circumstances but you can always choose your attitude by what you choose to compare your experiences or circumstances to and therefore how you will feel!! We can make any experience either a heaven or a hell by what we compare it to. Our emotions are 'an inside job!'

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Gratitude, Jobs, Attitude

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• It [what you choose to do] has got to be something that you're passionate about because otherwise you won't have the perseverance to see it through.

  Steve Jobs

  Leadership, Perseverance, Passionate

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• So many people feel that they have to wait for certain experiences in order to feel the emotions they desire. For instance, they don't give themselves permission to feel loved or happy or confident unless a particular set of expectations is met. I'm here to tell you that you can feel any way you choose at any moment in time.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Order, Expectations

  Tony Robbins (2007). “Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• There is really no reason to suffer. The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer. If you look at your life you will find many excuses to suffer, but a good reason to suffer you will not find. The same is true for happiness. The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Choices, Suffering

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