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I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.
Martin Short

Life, Stress, Treat

In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.
Rudy Giuliani

Future, Running, Choosing

The path we have chosen is constitutional.
John Ashcroft

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.
Bebe Neuwirth

Work, Health, Yourself

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.
Martin Gore

Different, Trying, Once

Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are 'chosen', the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.
Lynn Margulis

Powerful, Important, Made

Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
Zhang Ziyi

Everyone, She, Film

Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future one in which all of us can be part of and part of us too.
Michael D. Higgins

Work, Future, Heart

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
Beth Henley

Success, Food, School

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
Aaron Neville

Heard, Surprised, Award

People say they love the characters I've chosen in my career. But I didn't choose anything. I just happened to be working and these were offered to me.
Michael K. Williams

Love, Career, Working

I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.
Pedro Almodovar

Work, Someone, Tell

When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.
Buffy Sainte-Marie

Tell, Shows, Drawing

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.
Richard Holbrooke

Government, Important, Nothing

I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.
Anna Friel

Different, Quite, Limited

I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.
Adrian Grenier

Career, Thought, Might

Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.
Dennis Brown

Few, Brown, Dennis

We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself.
Mark Millar

Good, Before, Wanted

I feel that I've been very fortunate in the films that I have gotten and that I've chosen to do.
Heather Matarazzo

Films, Fortunate, Gotten

I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!
Carmen Miranda

Time, Anger, Wedding

I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out with my kids and family when I'm not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out.
Jennifer Connelly

Family, Fun, Live

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.
David Sarnoff

Yourself, Sense, Whatever

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.
Edward Burnett Tylor

Matter, Building, Position

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.
Edward Burnett Tylor

Different, Country, Last

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.
Alcee Hastings

Peace, Working, Violence

We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.
James P. Hoffa

Money, Business, Fight

I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
Adam Clayton

Last, Times, Bachelor

I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.
Karl Urban

Work, End, Reality

I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I've kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. There's nothing wrong with settling, it's definitely an easier life than the one I've chosen to live.
Aubrey O'Day

Life, Live, Nothing

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.
Merlin Olsen

Football, Last, Games

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