#choose

As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember. ↗

— Katarina Witt

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I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

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If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them? ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor. ↗

— Gene Hackman

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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you'll still be a part of a dream - only it will be someone else's. ↗

— Mike Hawkins

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Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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The big guys choose who they want to fight and they think about history: 'how many times I defended my title.' They try to break a record: 'how long I was there.' But if you look at the pedigree, who they fought, ain't nobody gonna give them credit for it because they fought a lot of people with no experience. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. ↗

— Langston Hughes

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