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• It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

  Al Sharpton

  Kings, Vision, Drs

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• Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Happiness, Marriage, Wedding

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

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• The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Thinking, Nba

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• No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Life, Teacher, Jobs

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• Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.

  Kate Smith

  War, Voice, Ties

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• The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues.

  Rod Parsley

  Issues, Social, Court

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• From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.

  Robert Nozick

  Inspirational

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Trying, Different

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• We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Country, Land, Race

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.34

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• Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Actors, Film, Built

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• My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Class, Parent, Performers

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• The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.

  Bruce Kent

  Religious, People, Way

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• Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

  Madeleine Albright

  Iraq, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  Press Statement, Chicago, www.pbs.org. November 10, 1999.

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• You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

  Confucius

  Reading, Ignorance, Self

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• Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Regret, Goal

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.56, Penguin Books India

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• A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

  Chaim Potok

  Men, Quality, May

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

  Chaim Potok

  Silence, Quality, Dimensions

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Choices, Victory, One Day At A Time

  Twitter post from Jan 02, 2016

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• Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope you will never take it for granted. I hope there will grow in your hearts an overpowering sense of gratitude to God, who has made it possible for you to come upon the earth in this marvelous season of the world's history.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Gratitude, Heart, Young Friends

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• The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

  Albrecht Durer

  Artist, Public Opinion, Overwhelmed

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• To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

  Dennis Banks

  Running, Honor, Bags

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• Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

  John Berger

  Village, Emigration, Metropolis

  John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.45, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

  William James

  Philosophical, Quality, Ethics

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.242, Penguin

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• Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.

  Heidi Klum

  Being Happy, Issues, Surprise

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• The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

  Jack Levine

  Disappointment, Race, Opposites

  Kenneth Wade Prescott, Jack Levine (1978). “Jack Levine: Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings, Drawings, Graphics”

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