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I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'
Cher

Religion, Problem, Makes

I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
Kate Moss

Someone, Free, Put

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
James K. Polk

Whole, Action, Stand

My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Time, Wife, Children

I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient.
Clive Owen

Film, Shot, Honestly

The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
Buffalo Bill

Home, Important, May

You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.
Lech Walesa

Yourself, Once, Respected

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Jane Fonda

Yourself, Career, Unexpected

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
Guy Debord

Love, Young, Between

My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it.
Eric Bana

Love, Exercise, Cycling

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Lonely, Path, Free

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.
Charles Hodge

Power, Others, Rather

The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.
Dennis Rodman

Bad, Around, Themselves

My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.
Francois Hollande

Change, Important, May

I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department.
Sara Blakely

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
Elia Kazan

Made, Pictures, Direct

I'm proud of myself. I could break and go get all this plastic surgery and get my nose fixed and get lipo or do whatever, but I haven't chosen to do that because I know I'm a great person. I'm pretty damn hot, if you ask me.
Khloe Kardashian

Great, Person, Pretty

I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.
Jarvis Cocker

Simple, Put, Around

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
Charles Babbage

History, Knowledge, Science

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.
J. J. Abrams

Movies, Sports, Kids

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
Thomas a Kempis

Two, Less, Evils

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.
Ice T

Music, Movies, Yourself

But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.
Julius Erving

Live, Moving, Try

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.
Henry Taylor

Men, Character, Others

I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.
Selma Blair

Faith, Men, Bad

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.
Nichelle Nichols

God, Blessed, Career

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
John Berger

Time, Experience, National

He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
Walter Isaacson

Special, Said, Jobs

You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
Harry Browne

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
Joyce Maynard

Fear, Book, Writing

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