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"You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor."
"If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that genius is placed into technological wizardry which has been our great achievement, or, by contrast, placed into the unraveling of complex threads of memory inherent in a myth is simply a matter of choice."
"I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance."
"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live."
"The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank."
"Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us."
"Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work."
"Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me - they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are pogroms."
"The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad."
"It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself."
"Attitude determines choice, and choice determines results. All that we are, and all that we can become has indeed been left unto us."
"I will die if I lose you, but I will die if I wait longer."
"I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice."
"what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits."
"If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?"
"You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you."
"Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment."
"It's your choice, what you do with the moment. If you're stuck in a traffic jam, you can get angry and honk your horn, or listen to Mozart. But when you have a very specific expectation of how things should be, then, of course, you end up hurting yourself."
"There aren't any answers, only choices"
"The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit."
