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• Miramar, my recording company, has decided to offer a compilation of my music for snowboarding, which will have the same cover as the book does.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Snowboarding, Doe

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• Be radical! The reason you feel so miserable is because you put spirituality in a form. You boxed it, franchised it. You decided spirituality was a certain way but then you got stuck in the way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Way, Spirituality

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• I don't really wanna think about themes. I wanna just think about the experience of the movie. I feel like, as soon as I reduce it to a theme, once I write that sentence, it won't be that great. I feel like there's more potential for it to mean something interesting if I'm not forcing it to mean something I've already decided.

  Wes Anderson

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  "Wes Anderson Talks THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, the Film's Cast, His Aesthetic, Shifting Aspect Ratios, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. February 24, 2014.

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• So many people are killing their childhood. It's like, "Okay, today I've decided I'm gonna be a grown-up, and I'm not a kid anymore." But, that's bullshit. You're still a kid. It makes no sense to kill the kid.

  Quentin Dupieux

  Kids, Bullshit, People

  "Quentin Dupieux Talks WRONG COPS, Fast-Paced Shoots, and His Secret Project with Marilyn Manson". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 25, 2013.

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• Pretty much I want to be Steve Wozniak, who I decided I was at a young age and not change. I want to go back to school and get my college degree like I would have without Apple. I want to teach young kids like I would have without Apple. And part of it is I'm accessible. I'm open. And so many people e-mail me and get me. And as much as I can I try to answer people, listen to them, be polite and say yes.

  Steve Wozniak

  Kids, School, College

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• I had much more money than you ever need in your life to live on. So I was giving computer labs to school districts. I was - but then I decided you should really give yourself.

  Steve Wozniak

  School, Giving, Needs

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.

  Jack Nicholson

  Believe, Six Months, Forget

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• (Terrorists) are planning to disrupt our democratic process. It's scary I know, but we're not going to let al Qaeda tell us what to do. In fact, our government has decided that if al Qaeda attempts to disrupt our democratic process, we are going to respond by disrupting it first.

  Jon Stewart

  Government, Scary, Als

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• I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Stories

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• Ive always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just show me different parts of the world and people. So when I was about six, I decided that that was what I wanted to do: make movies.

  Daniella Alonso

  Kids, People, Different

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• I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.

  Tamala Jones

  Home, Decision, Acting

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 11, 2012.

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• For the decisions of our will are often so directly opposed to the decisions of our emotions, that, if we are in the habit of considering our emotions as the test, we shall be very apt to feel like hypocrites in declaring those things to be real which our will alone has decided.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Real, Hypocrite, Decision

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2009). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”, p.89, Moody Publishers

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• When my husband Edgar and I were courting, he said he couldn't wait to have a baby. It was only after we were married that he changed his mind and decided that I should have the baby.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Husband, Should Have

  Joan Rivers (1978). “Having a Baby Can Be a Scream”, Avon Books

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• Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it was not tampered with by white people. It was not on the media. It was not anywhere except where black people were. And it is one of the art forms in which black people decided what is good in it. Nobody told them. What surfaced and what floated to the top, were the giants and the best.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Media, Class

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• When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

  Herbert Hoover

  Acceptance, Criticism, Cost

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• He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

  John Stuart Mill

  Self, Decision, Apes

  John Stuart Mill (1865). “On Liberty”, p.34

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• my parents ... had decided early on that all of the problems in my family had somehow to do with me. All roads led to Roseyville, a messy, chaotic town where, as parents, they were required to visit, but could never get out of quick enough or find a decent parking place.

  Roseanne Barr

  Parent, Towns, Blame

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• Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over.

  Gladys Taber

  Valentine, Thinking, Should Have

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• I just didn't like the way we were, in my opinion, being unfairly attacked. I just decided to do what was right for our family.

  Robert Kraft

  Nfl, Way, Opinion

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• When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay.

  Nick Vujicic

  Suicide, Giving Up, Years

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• Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

  Marie Corelli

  Spiritual, Intuition, Logic

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Master Christian”, p.154, The Floating Press

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• The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

  Hedda Hopper

  Movie, Dream, Genius

  Hedda Hopper (1963). “the Whole Truth and Nothing But”

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• In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Morning, People, Easy

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr

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• I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.

  Antonia Fraser

  Justice, Usual, Middle

  Antonia Fraser (1977). “Quiet as a Nun”

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• I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.

  Gene Cernan

  Children, War, Two

  "This much I know". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.

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