People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it-ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
Sarah McLachlan

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.
Sarah McLachlan

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
Erykah Badu

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.
Erykah Badu

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
Fernando Pessoa

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
Helen Hayes

If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her... I like her.
Simon Cowell

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
Arthur Miller

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham

You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.
Jesse Ventura

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter

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.
Ivan Illich

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
Madeleine L'Engle

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
Nicolas De Chamfort

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
John Lubbock

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.
Alanis Morissette

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
Sting

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Theodor Adorno