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

I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

I don't think we can sit on the fence anymore. We have to make up our minds. And if one wants to choose the path of darkness, then so be it, but be conscious of what it is you're doing.

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

I choose roles that are not me.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.

We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.

If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.

But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.