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• The fact that perfume is so close to emotion, that's why I really love it. It's such a good connection between people. When you fall in love with somebody, smell is very important. It could be your memory of the person - it's touching. And it's also playful, because sometimes you choose a different perfume every day depending on your mood. I like to help with that. I like to give a little joy to people.

  Thierry Mugler

  Falling In Love, Memories, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• That's very indicative to me of one of the things that really creates an aversion for me about having a child - this idea that every decision you make in your life has to be dictated by the child. And yet, I believe that if you choose to have a child you have an absolute primary responsibility to create a safe, loving environment.

  Piper Kerman

  Children, Believe, Responsibility

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

  Jane Austen

  Laughing, Prejudice, Literature

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.75

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• Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Unrequited Love, Wicked, Want

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1032, e-artnow

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• If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Worst Enemy, Nihilism, Fight Club Novel

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.141, Random House

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• Do what you do for the sheer joy of it, Do what you choose,not what someone else chooses for you.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Joy, Sheer Joy, Sheer

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• There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.

  Kris Radish

  Joy, Faces, Sun

  Kris Radish (2009). “The Shortest Distance Between Two Women”, p.235, Bantam

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• [How to think about a problem:] The first step is to make the problem specific . . . ; The second step is to form theories freely of how to rid yourself of that burden . . . ; The third step is to develop in foresight the consequences of your proposals . . . ; The fourth and final step in thinking is to compare the consequences of your proposals to see which is best in the light of your scheme of life as a whole . . . ; Whether you choose a vacation or a spouse, a party or a candidate, a cause to contribute to or a creed to live by - think!

  Brand Blanshard

  Party, Thinking, Vacation

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  When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that's what makes a leader.

  Dolores Huerta

  Giving Up, Community, Leader

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Desire, Action, Wells

  "Memory". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1996.

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• your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Self, Hands, Giving

  "Diary". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 26, 2003.

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• Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

  Andre Breton

  Steps, Greatest Gifts

  Andre Breton, Mark Polizzotti (1997). “Anthology of Black Humor”, p.309, City Lights Books

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• People have this kind of concept that they can't change but I feel like change is possible. So who you choose to be is who you are and who you will be. I think that you can be enlightened in many different ways and if you choose to be enlightened and are someone who seeks out those things then you can be that and you will be that. If you want to be enlightened you will be enlightened. If you want to be an asshole you will be an asshole. But the greater scope of this statement is if you look at the history of humans, really, nothing has changed.

  David W. Marsden

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you choose to come back to it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Work, Thinking, Want

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• Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.

  Terry Pratchett

  Memories, Mean, Sleep

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• A great many things determine how people live, and money is not at the top of the list. Choices are always available. What you choose will depend on how you see things: yourself, your work, your right to express taste and desire and personality, your understanding of the love of God as expressed in His creation and order and harmony.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Order, People, Choices

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• Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama. You put all you're hope and all your dreams and all your ideas about stuff into one human being. They're a human being they're going to let you down. You can't make someone your hero because of something you read on the internet. The internet is not a source of information it is a source of disinformation.

  Craig Ferguson

  Dream, Hero, Ideas

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• If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.

  Orson Scott Card

  Believe, Doubt, World

  "The Call Of Earth". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1992.

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• Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Heart, Color, Your Favorite

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Miles Between”, p.145, Macmillan

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• Happiness is what you choose to remember.

  Jodi Picoult

  Remember

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• And after a while...I mean how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die.

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, People, Life Is

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.86, Penguin

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• Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you." You said the other day life was long," I shot back. "Which is it?" It's both," she said, shrugging. "It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing." Nothing can be two opposite things at once," I said. "It's impossible." No," she replied, squeezing my hand, "what's impossible is that we actually think it could be anything OTHER than that.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life Is Short, Thinking, Hands

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.98, Penguin

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• The whole idea of action being a carrier of information is something that comes directly from theater. That's, in some ways, the one thing I've been trying to contribute. I still write things outside of architecture - not really fiction, but not nonfiction. I like dialogue as a form, because the text is only the trace of an action. The consequential information is carried in the action you choose to put on that text.

  Keller Easterling

  Writing, Trying, Action

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The normal way of gathering information is through sound: when you hear information that you want to gather, you look in its direction, you see what it is, if you choose you can get closer, you can see it, you can touch, and then, finally, the most committed form of data gathering is to taste it and eat it. But for the urbanite, we're cut off from our primary sense, and I want to stress that - our primary sense of gathering information about the place that we're living in - and instead, we're in a war zone.

  Gordon Hempton

  War, Stress, Cutting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.

  Hermann Hesse

  Lying, Mean, Reality

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.176, Macmillan

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