Chosen Quotes - Page 12

• While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Believe, Gay, Bisexual

  "Cynthia Nixon Updates Her Controversial Statement: She Now Says She is 'Technically' Bisexual" by Gena Kaufman, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2012.

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• The most important thing for workers to understand is that you have to make yourself indispensable. You must make money for your employer or make his life easier, preferably both. Also, you have to learn as much as you can about your chosen endeavor.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Important, Making Money, Easier

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• I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient.

  Clive Owen

  Film, Shots, Honestly

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• Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

  Christina Ricci

  Successful, Years, Tv Shows

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• The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.

  Tom Robbins

  Reading, Tape, Headache

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• I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

  Julia Roberts

  Dental, Fame, Microscopes

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• Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.

  Will Self

  Sports, Effort, Puberty

  "Not in my manor" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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• In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

  Cat Stevens

  Peace, Ignorance, Light

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• Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.

  Taylor Swift

  Curious, Stills, Ifs

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• Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

  Lech Walesa

  Authority

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• You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.

  Lech Walesa

  Lawmakers, Should, Polls

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• The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Kings, Pennsylvania, Agents

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• I've been criticized for the things I chose and things I've chosen to do.

  Lil Wayne

  Inspiration

  "Lil Wayne Makes Up For Lateness With Rock-star Swagger At New Jersey Show" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. February 25, 2008.

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• I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.

  Scott Weiland

  Suffering, Disorder, Episodes

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• I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence.

  Johnny Weir

  Fall, Design, Costumes

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• Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.

  Rowan Williams

  Marriage, Unique, Echoes

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• Every time in my life when I have chosen to delay following inspired counsel or decided that I was an exception, I came to know that I had put myself in harm's way. Every time that I have listened to the counsel of prophets, felt it confirmed in prayer, and then followed it, I have found that I moved toward safety.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Prayer, Safety, Delay

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• And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Fate, Differences

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. What you wish to sing of as tragic love is an attachment not carefully chosen. Die for one person? This is a craziness. Persons change, leave, die, become ill. They leave, lie, go mad, have sickness, betray you, die. Your nation outlives you. A cause outlives you.

  David Foster Wallace

  Lying, Love Is, Attachment

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• Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

  Anthony Burgess

  Men, Evil, Dystopia

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• It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

  Jane Austen

  Fiction Novels, Thorough Knowledge, Mind

  Northanger Abbey ch. 5 (1818)

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• A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their nature (i.e., oppressed) forever in ferment and agitation against their condition and what they understand to be their oppressors. If not by overt rebellion or revolution, then in the thousand and one ways they will devise with and without consciousness to alter their condition

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Forever, Agitation, Groups

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• Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Mean, Men, Able

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• We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Heart, Numbers, Events

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Lolita”, p.163, Penguin UK

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