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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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• Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Sports, Experts, Firsts

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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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• Art's whatever you choose to frame.

  Fleur Adcock

  Art

  Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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• Remember this, you don't have to be important or special or glamorous; all you actually need is success and pleasure from whatever it is that you choose to do with your life. You don't have to become something in the eyes of others, you only have to become something in your own reality. From this humble attitude flows a sweet serenity which comes naturally from personal healing and spiritual reconciliation.

  Stuart Wilde

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Sweet

  Stuart Wilde (1993). “More Love: Tender Moments”, White Dove International

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• I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.

  Cindy Margolis

  Mother, Suffering, Want

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• Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one of these rarities - engrossing, beautifully written and utterly enchanting. If you choose to read just one novel this year, this is it

  Danielle Trussoni

  Night, Escaping, Years

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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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• 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 a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.

  Atom Egoyan

  Thinking, Decisions You Make, Important

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don't step on my blue suede shoes.

  Al Yankovic

  Blue, Shoes, Trying

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• Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.

  Jackson Browne

  Inspirational, Forget, Used

  Song: The Fuse, Album: The Pretender, 1976

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• If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Enemy, Adages, Criticize

  Song: You're No Different

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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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• 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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• Listen, if you choose to believe nothing else that transpires here, believe this: your body does not have a soul; your soul has a body, and souls never, ever die.

  Bernice L. McFadden

  Believe, Soul, Doe

  Bernice L. McFadden (2015). “The Bernice L. McFadden Collection: Gathering of Waters, Glorious, The Warmest December, and Nowhere Is a Place”, p.11, Akashic Books

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• I decided to find you, throw myself at your feet, and beg you to have mercy on me. Honestly, I'll accept whatever you choose, Kelsey. Just don't ask me to live apart from you again. Because...I can't.

  Colleen Houck

  Feet, Romance, Kelsey

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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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• I wish you would grow to the understanding that you choose heterosexuality.

  Marilyn Frye

  Understanding, Wish, Heterosexuality

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

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• I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Mean, Simple, Facts

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• In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

  Sean Durkin

  Cutting, Editing, Creating

  "FUTURES| Sundance’s Golden Boy Sean Durkin, Director/Writer of 'Martha Marcy May Marlene'" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. October 20, 2011.

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• The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.

  Jack Dorsey

  Brother, Stupid, Useless Things

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• Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

  Benjamin Carson

  Matter, Evolution, Creationism

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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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