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I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective. -- Edward Abbey
I wanna be selective... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement. -- Timbaland
I've spent years saying no to things. It's important to be selective with both projects and partners. -- Lauren Conrad
I've been fortunate that I can be selective enough to do acting when it's really furthering what I want to do with my life. -- Kirk Cameron
People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you can choose to be selective. -- Kevin Systrom
If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger -- Wes Fesler
I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does. -- Virgilia Peterson
In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your endeavors, and think well of the endeavors of others. -- Frederick Lenz
In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your endeavors, and think well of the endeavors of others. -- Frederick Lenz
He and she become selective at different points; she can be selective when he wants his primary fantasy - sex; he can be selective when she wants her primary fantasy - commitment. -- Warren Farrell
But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow. -- Rachel Cohn
Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do. -- Dennis Moore
Yeah, I'm a giver. I've learned to be selective of the people in my world, because if I love someone, I will give them my blood, whatever they need. In doing so, one can end up with little left for themselves. -- Brittany Murphy
I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to be selective about the things that we remember. If you want to destroy people, destroy their memory, destroy their history. -- Desmond Tutu
You can't be selective about freedom of speech. If you say you believe in freedom of speech you have to acknowledge the people whose views you disagree with, people whose views you may detest, nevertheless have the right to freedom of speech. -- George Brandis
You can see that there is scarcely an observable fact unworthy of mention in your notes, and yet you could easily spend more time scribbling than watching, and that would defeat the purpose. So be selective, don't be compulsive, and enjoy your note-taking. -- Robert Pyle
You have to have good training partners and not people who crank on things. There's a difference between cranking on it and catching it, holding it and making the guy work out. You have to be selective with your training partners for sure. -- Jon Fitch
I've had a wonderful career and I'm very happy to have had all of the opportunities that I've had to tell stories and work for as long as I have. I'm sure there'll be a few more films but I'm happy that I'm able to be selective. -- Angelina Jolie
I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and signals of the sort that cult studies people study; and it's partly, I suppose, because some of those signs and signals aren't worth bothering about. You have to be selective about these things. -- Peter York
Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust. -- Shelley Long
Any unveiling is also veiling. No matter how transparent our governments want to be, governments will be selectively transparent. -- Ivan Krastev
If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court. -- Eleanor Holmes Norton
One has to be very selective about what is essential for driving the story and what isn't. You leave out some things that are lovely, but unfortunately it is necessary. -- David Barron
I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I'm also selective - that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy. -- Esther Rolle
There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that it is coming from inside out, not outside in. -- Sue Monk Kidd
That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Porter is my eldest child, and I tended to be fiercely protective when he was criticized. He actually was not a big complainer about school. Simply selective in what he chose to do and say. -- Susan Shreve
I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around. -- Julie Walters
Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution. -- Gary Bauer
Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It's imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways - ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective. -- Phylicia Rashad
The Gospels were written to present the life and teachings of Jesus in ways that would be appropriate to different readerships, and for that reason are not all the same. They were not intended to be biographies of Jesus, but selective accounts that would demonstrate his significance for different cultures. -- John Drane
In a day when broadcasters and publishers have rather free access into our homes, we must seek clean, uplifting entertainment, whether on television, videos, movies, magazines, books, and other printed material. We should be very selective and choose only those things that meet the test of being virtuous, lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
We have to rethink the way we light our cities. We have to think again about light as a default solution. Why are all these motorways permanently lit? Is it really needed? Can we maybe be much more selective and create better environments that also benefit from darkness? Can we be more gentle with light? -- Rogier van der Heide
For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money. -- Lizzy Caplan
Well, in our industry it's that the movies cost so much money to make they have to appeal to a broad audience. And I think that's part of what will loosen up in the future, as technology makes it cheaper, you'll be able to make films for a more selective audience. I think people will be able to make more personal movies. -- Chris Wedge
I have selective hearing. -- Eddie Van Halen
Composition is selective improvisation. -- Igor Stravinsky
Be selective in your battles... -- Brandi L. Bates
The selective memory isn't selective enough. -- Blake Morrison
Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are. -- Malcolm Forbes
Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation. -- Deepak Chopra
It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. -- Bill Watterson
The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for. -- Philip K. Dick
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice. -- Richard Harris
Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time. -- Fay Weldon
I'm very closed off when it comes to working with people, I'm very selective. -- Charli XCX
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. -- Ayn Rand
When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection. -- Gabriel Lippmann
Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go. -- Marianne Williamson
Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective and selective. Camera vision is total and non - objective. -- Andreas Feininger
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. -- Wole Soyinka
I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me. -- Michael Pena
To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. -- Claude Simon
When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges. -- Simon Sinek
I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke . -- Michael Pitt
Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest. -- Tim Ferriss
I try to keep the happy memories. If that's what you call selective memories, I'm good with that. -- Nicole Williams
A grateful heart is not one that is very selective and choosy about what to be grateful for. -- Radhanath Swami
The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in the sinking of the unfit. -- Felix Riesenberg
It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals. -- Jonathan Haidt
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one. -- Emily Oster
Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else, either. -- Judith Guest
That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence? -- Yann Martel
I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove. -- Randolph M. Nesse
What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget? -- Alanis Morissette
I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly. -- Will Ferrell
Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call. -- Ronny Cox
We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think. -- Rod Serling
Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that selective evilness is okay is mental illness. -- Shannon L. Alder
Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say. -- Brian Tracy
The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking. -- Charles Hugh Smith
For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations. -- Barton Gellman
I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in. -- Richard Gere
History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past. -- Julian Jaynes
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed. -- Bill Vaughan
I am selective, but at the same time, I want to be out there as an actor and show people my range. -- Sasha Grey
Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation. -- Damon Keith
Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security. -- William Safire
Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures. -- Emily Yoffe
I used to think God wouldnâ??t talk to me, but now I know Iâ??m just selective with what I choose to hear. -- Bob Goff
I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not. -- Richard Paul Evans
The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention. -- Boris Sidis
It's nice to be in a place where I can be a little more selective, and to be sought out for ideas that I have. -- Will Ferrell
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth. -- E. L. Doctorow
Ben Carson also denounced [Donald] Trump`s ban all Muslims proposal saying we do not and would not advocate being selective on one`s religion. -- Rachel Maddow
I am kind of being a little selective in what I do, so it takes a little bit longer, but it's worth it in the end. -- Chrissie Fit
Christians in this country have found themselves under selective assault. God has, almost overnight, been removed from the educational, legal, and political institutions of the country. -- Daniel Lapin
The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression. -- Leopoldo Lopez
We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest. -- Frank Luntz
My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly selective. -- Burton Silverman
The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war. -- Kenneth Kaunda
Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur. -- Diane Ackerman
China's one-child policy punishes families for having 'out-of-plan' children, resulting in sex-selective abortion and tens of millions of 'missing girls' as well as forced abortion and sterilization campaigns. -- Chris Smith
Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. -- Octavia E. Butler
A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct. -- Daniel Dennett
I'm not a big shopper. I'm very very picky about what it is that I buy, I prefer to buy vintage and then I prefer to be very selective. -- Jaime King
The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved. -- Jacob Bronowski
The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't. -- Michael Hastings
Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire. -- Vera Nazarian
It is most critical for a woman, or for a man who is very sensitive and opens up his heart, to be very selective about the people they have sex with. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I've always been selective about materials I choose anyways. The incoming calls haven't been projects that I necessarily want to do. Now I can always be called "Emmy winner Regina King." -- Regina King
Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and awaken new possibilities for balance, healing, and transformation. -- David Simon
Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding. -- Margaret Sanger
New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form. -- Jim Walsh
Stanley Kubrick was very selective when he went into a close-up. Every director has his taste in a performance, but Stanley would explore a scene to find what was most interesting for him. -- Tom Cruise
You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out. -- Roy Romer
In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia. -- William Sloane Coffin
Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information in order to create an impression different from that originally intended. -- James A.C. Brown
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. -- Irving Babbitt
An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely. -- Graham Greene
I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do. -- Kim Smith

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