All Quotes

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.
‐‐ Themistocles

I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
‐‐ Fran Drescher

I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.
‐‐ Rita Coolidge

I choose things that challenge me. I was afraid of the camera - that's why I chose to do 'Private Practice.' It's not like I left the theater.
‐‐ Audra McDonald

I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.
‐‐ Eddie Huang

I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past. So, I don't worry about being compared, because I think that does paralyze you.
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh

I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be.
‐‐ Michael Michele

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.
‐‐ Glen Hansard

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.
‐‐ Amy Sedaris

I choose to express myself.
‐‐ Dan Fogelberg

I choose to feel optimistic, because I don't think I could get out of bed if I didn't.
‐‐ Kerry Washington

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.
‐‐ Ann Curry

I choose to live, not just exist.
‐‐ James Hetfield

I choose to live without hope to protect myself from disappointment. It's very effective!
‐‐ Spencer Kayden

I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.
‐‐ Michael Newdow

I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it.
‐‐ Julia Roberts

I choose what to wear depending on how I feel and what I'm comfortable in. That's when you look your best.
‐‐ Cat Deeley

I choose work that is hard to pull off. And it's scary how things can go wrong. But if there's no risk involved, it's not challenging. A good idea will survive any process.
‐‐ Steven Holl

I choose work with the people I like to work with.
‐‐ Mads Mikkelsen

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.
‐‐ Chris Marker

I chose a time in the century which had the greatest moments for novels - the late '30s and World War II.
‐‐ Alan Furst

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
‐‐ George Soros

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.
‐‐ Dave Winfield

I chose biochemistry as my major and graduated after 4 years with an Honours degree in Biochemistry. During that time, I had come to love biochemistry research, although I was just getting my feet wet in laboratory research.
‐‐ Elizabeth Blackburn

I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake.
‐‐ Subhash Chandra

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
‐‐ Ed Harris

I chose my house because I loved the fact that there was a really busy road with lots of things to stare at.
‐‐ Kate Williams

I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.
‐‐ Marie Brennan

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
‐‐ Oliver Goldsmith

I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
‐‐ Irvin Mayfield

I chose 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective,' or I'll say it chose me, and it was an absolute blessing, for the experience of being in Africa for seven months and learning so many different things, from languages to foods to greetings. On so many levels, it was an incredible experience.
‐‐ Jill Scott

I chose not to go home and struggle with the New York scene. My size sort of locked me out. I was too short for the stage. I would have been doing character roles, so I went to Los Angeles. There is a lot more happening out there. I also felt it was important to break away from my family.
‐‐ Julie Warner

I chose not to go into politics and policy. Those policies are my husband's job.
‐‐ Melania Trump

I chose not to put a wig on. The reason why I chose to come out with the cancer thing is because there's somebody out there who can see that all sickness isn't unto death. That it's something you can't change at that point in time, so you just got to go with it. Don't be ashamed. Don't be ashamed of looking at yourself.
‐‐ Sharon Jones

I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.
‐‐ Sally Mann

I chose poetry. Actually, poetry chose me.
‐‐ Joy Harjo

I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.
‐‐ Arthur Cohn

I chose Tennessee because I thought they'd give me an opportunity to play.
‐‐ Jamal Lewis

I chose the Egyptian dream: the dream to make a TV show, and then be called an infidel by the end.
‐‐ Bassem Youssef

I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
‐‐ Victoria Abril

I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Republican, as was my mother, in Virginia.
‐‐ Edward Brooke

I chose the Xperia based on its functions. Apart from using the phone to communicate, I also use it to take pictures. The image quality with this cell phone is great.
‐‐ Okky Madasari

I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?
‐‐ Chanda Kochhar

I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him.
‐‐ June Carter Cash

I chose to be retired. I chose to start a family. That was one of the biggest reasons I got away from the game of baseball. I wanted to start a family. I was happy.
‐‐ Mark McGwire

I chose to camouflage my body into the environment because this way, people will pay more attention to the background's social property, and the meaning of my body disappeared in this environment as an individual.
‐‐ Liu Bolin

I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.
‐‐ James Sanborn

I chose to deal with the underdogs on '1 Train.' I could've got the biggest superstars in the rap game, but why do that when you can let the young boys shine?
‐‐ ASAP Rocky