DJ Khaled
Music Producer
"In life everyone has a choice. The key is: make a right choice."
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Choices
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"We are our choices."
Michelle Obama
Lawyer, Author, First Lady
"My message to women: Do what makes you feel good, because there'll always be someone who thinks you should do it differently. Whether your choices are hits or misses, at least they're your own."
Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice."
David Hume
Philosopher, Historian
"There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse."
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"I did a lot of drugs. I didn't do multiple drugs, but I overindulged in whatever drug of choice."
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"Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us."
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"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism."
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"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."
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"Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you."
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"All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love."
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"We have to get money. We have no choice. It cost money to eat."
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"How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought by a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn't it a matter of choice? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the manager—I have something to say about this. Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint?"
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"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved."
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"The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it."
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"It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil."
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"Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother"
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"Character is determined by choice, not opinion."
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"Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day."
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"Make a choice of what you want, who you want to be and how you're going to do it. The universe will get out of your way."
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"... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today."
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"How one encounters reality is a choice."
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"So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom."
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"To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions."
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"'It only put me in Gryffindor,' said Harry in a defeated voice, 'because I asked not to go in Slytherin...' 'Exactly' said Dumbledore, beaming once more. 'Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.'"
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