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• All I knew about shot putting was that my [older] brother could do 44 feet. I decided I wanted to beat him. . . . So I got a shot and went to work and made up my mind to do 45 feet.

  Bruce Bennett

  Brother, Feet, Mind

  "Film Star and Olympian Herman Brix" by Adam Bernstein, www.washingtonpost.com. February 28, 2007.

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• It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.

  James Cameron

  Simple, Long Ago, Way

  James Cameron (1987). “An Indian Summer”, p.147, Penguin Books India

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• Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents have told me about."

  Mark Falcoff

  Country, Islands, Grandparent

  "Post-Fidel Plans for U.S.-Cuba Relations, Migration Policy". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2007.

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• On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Directors, Speak, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started reading the works of Swami Vivekananda. That gave me courage and a vision, it sharpened and deepened my sensitivities and gave me a new perspective and a direction in life. I decided to dedicate myself to others and till date I am continuing to follow that decision.

  Narendra Modi

  Reading, Perspective, Decision

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim, Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 7, 2015.

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• I thought of killing myself but soon decided that I could always try MIT and then kill myself later if it was that bad but that I couldn't commit suicide and then try MIT afterwards. The two operations, suicide and going to MIT, don't commute.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Suicide, Two, Trying

  "The Making of a Physicist". Edge.org Video interview, www.edge.org. June 30, 2003.

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• I had gotten up to two, maybe three, packs (of cigarettes) a day. And my lungs were bothering me and I'd had pneumonia two or three times. And I was also smoking pot, and I decided, well, one of them's got to go. And so I took a pack of Chesterfields and took all the Chesterfields out, rolled up 20 big fat ones and put it in there, and I haven't smoked a cigarette since then.

  Willie Nelson

  Pneumonia, Two, Smoking

  "Willie Nelson: Road Rules And Deep Thoughts". "Weekend Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. November 18, 2012.

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• That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This hideous fate was made possible by an inexperienced president with a fundamentalist psyche and a paranoid and power-hungry vice-president who decided to embrace "the dark side" almost as soon as the second tower fell, and who is still trying to avenge Nixon. Until they are both gone from office, we are in grave danger the kind of danger that only torturers and fantasists and a security strategy based on coerced evidence can conjure up.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Fate, Dark, Office

  "Imaginationland". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. October 25, 2007.

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• The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Truth, War, Power

  B. H. Liddell Hart (2009). “Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American”, p.10, Da Capo Press

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• When I came overseas, I realized that there are many ideologies and many trends, and it's also very hard to produce honest art and honest literature. I decided that I didn't want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because that's also a kind of pressure that doesn't allow absolute freedom. So I decided that I was only going to produce works that were satisfactory to me, and that meant not following any trends and being anti-ideological.

  Gao Xingjian

  Art, Pressure, Literature

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• Sometimes we say we want an end to hate or racism or sexism. But we all participate in keeping these structures alive. If everyone decided to relinquish the past what would happen to people who feel that there hasn't been proper atonement made to them? And what happens to the person who feels that the constant atonement is their identity?

  Chris Abani

  Hate, Past, People

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• My idol was Johann Cruyff (a Dutch soccer player) and I wanted to be like him. But when I realized that I would never be, I decided to do something else. I met the kitchen by chance and quickly became completely enamoured by it.

  Ferran Adria

  Soccer, Player, Idols

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• Remember, you cannot be responsible for the happiness of other people. You can do your best to be sensitive to the needs and desires of others, but some people will not be happy no matter how much you do for them. If you decided you were responsible for their happiness, you could drive yourself completely up the nearest wall.

  Kevin Leman

  Wall, Remember You, Remembers You

  Kevin Leman (2010). “Why Your Best Is Good Enough”, p.212, Revell

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• Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to resume my lectures again and look the Hydra of doubt straight into the eye, and it be quite ominous if one values one's life.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Philosophy, Fall, Eye

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• If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it. How could anybody say that this wouldn't be as worthwhile an artform as anything on earth?

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Live For Today, Alive

  Stan Lee, Jeff McLaughlin (2007). “Stan Lee: conversations”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.

  Sue Townsend

  Father, Careers, Boring

  1982 The Secret Diary of Adrian MoleAged133 /4,'Monday, May 25th'.

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• Everything is decided bya person's thoughts and if he is ideologically motivated, there is nothing he cannot do.

  Kim Il-sung

  Motivated, Persons, Ifs

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• I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.

  Arthur M. Jolly

  Hands, Sailing, Trying

  "Moby (No Last Name Given)". Book by Arthur M. Jolly, 2014.

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• Finnish forests: Let us remind the satellite pictures of the 1970's winter in which the old forest appeared black and young forest and cut downs white. Already then the Finnish borders were like drawn on the map: White Finland between black Karelian and black Sweden. Finnish Forest Research Institute hicced up some time and then decided that the pictures are fake.

  Pentti Linkola

  Cutting, Winter, White

  "Can Life Prevail?". Book by Pentti Linkola, 2004.

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• I have been advised that you have decided to move forward with your story without my interview. This, despite the fact confirmed more than three weeks ago that I would make myself available on a date certain (6 July), after you spoke to other relevant Church personnel and toured Church facilities, and that I would provide information annihilating the credibility of your sources including the fundamental crimes against the Scientology religion that were the reasons for their removal from post.

  David Miscavige

  Moving, July, Church

  "A Letter from David Miscavige" by Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, St Petersburg Times, June 23, 2009.

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• My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and emotional response - for letters, to which I had none. It was because of this that I decided not to continue math at Advanced level, but chose to study history, French and German instead.

  Daniel Tammet

  Math, Emotional, Numbers

  Daniel Tammet (2007). “Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I decided to craft a shorter version of the story, using very large words. Remembering though that I was kicked out of Bible College before I'd had a chance to learn many very large words, I concluded that my only remaining option was to tell the story simply, using simple words, and chance the consequences.

  Phil Vischer

  Simple, College, Yale

  "The Philosophical Implications of Talking Vegetables". Speech at Yale University, March 02, 2005.

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• In recent years, you've probably read the articles about major recording artists who have decided to practically give their music away, for this promotion or that exclusive deal. My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet...is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Artist, Years

  "For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story" by Taylor Swift, www.wsj.com. July 7, 2014.

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• President Obama has decided that he wants his presidential library to be in Chicago, not Hawaii. Today Hawaii's governor said, 'Great, who's going to want to come to Hawaii now?'

  Conan O'Brien

  Presidential, Library, Chicago

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• Unfortunately, once I did learn to smoke, I couldn't stop. I escalated to two packs a day very quickly, and stayed that way for about ten years. When I decided to stop, I adopted the method that my father had used when he quit. He would carry a cigarette in his shirt pocket, and every time he felt like smoking, he would pull out the cigarette and confront it: "Who stronger? You? Me?" Always the answer was the same: "I stronger." Back the cigarette would go, until the next craving. It worked for him, and it worked for me.

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Father, Years

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