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• My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.

  Juliette Binoche

  Fighting, America, England

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• It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Strong, Men, Issues

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• The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.

  Amy Chua

  Warrior, Army, People

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• I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Mother, Jobs, Niece

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• The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.

  John Cornyn

  Obamacare, Doe, Use

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• I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

  Jonathan Davis

  Night, World, Stuff

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• There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

  Guy Debord

  Hype, Deceit, World

  "Panegyric (Volume 1)". Book by Guy Debord, 1989.

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• But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.

  Julius Erving

  Moving, Understanding, Trying

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• I don't have a burning desire to act strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.

  Jodie Foster

  Personality, Desire, Burning

  "Jodie Foster Searches for Her Child in Flightplan". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. September 19, 2005.

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• During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.

  Al Franken

  Military, College, Careers

  Al Franken (2005). “The Truth (with jokes)”, p.60, Penguin

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• Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. 'That worked for everyone else,' God said.

  Al Franken

  Believe, College, Popular Vote

  Al Franken (2004). “Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”, p.9, Penguin

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• I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am.

  Dawn French

  Who I Am, Jolly

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• Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.

  Daniel Goleman

  Workout, Focus, Brain

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• You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Stars, Lying

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• I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.

  Anne Hathaway

  Thinking, Trying, Actors

  Interview with Chelsea Handler, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2011.

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• The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

  Charles Hodge

  Exercise, Names, People

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.16

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• We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Success, Innovation

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• I'm proud of myself. I could break and go get all this plastic surgery and get my nose fixed and get lipo or do whatever, but I haven't chosen to do that because I know I'm a great person. I'm pretty damn hot, if you ask me.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Proud, Hot, Noses

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• When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Lonely, Honor, Path

  "Suu Kyi To Accept Nobel Peace Prize, Decades Late". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 16, 2012.

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• I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

  Jessica Lange

  Regret, Dark, Enough Time

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• I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

  Jessica Lange

  Movie, Different, Actors

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• Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Religious, Strong, Dark

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.146, Lulu.com

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• Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

  Shirley Manson

  Artist, Voice, Support

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• Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Mean, Cat

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• The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing.

  Robert De Niro

  Directors

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