Decided Quotes - Page 27

• I was 45 years old when I decided to learn how to surf.

  Brian Grazer

  Years, Surf

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• Barry Goldwater has definitely decided to be a candidate in '64. He will campaign in all thirteen states.

  George Carlin

  Campaigns, States, Thirteen

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• You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Stories, Film, Accepted

  Source: variety.com

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• I was in college, I thought I was going to be a lawyer, I met this girl named Laura who was the most beautiful girl I had ever known, and she was taking an acting class, so I decided to take the same acting class. And I was a terrible actor in college.

  Kurt Fuller

  Beautiful, Girl, College

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.

  Hedi Slimane

  Block, Passion, Writing

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

  Barry Humphries

  Secret, Lasts, Firsts

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The people that can't sing anymore that had great voices are the people that went away for five years and then just decided to come back. And you just can't make a comeback. Comebacks are no good. You have to just keep singing. Or keep dancing.

  Stevie Nicks

  Years, Voice, People

  "Stevie Nicks: 'When We Walk Into The Room, We Have To Float In Like Goddesses'". Interview with Ann Powers, www.npr.org. March 17, 2013.

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• When I was a teenager, I was trying to please people. I kept changing who I was to please the people I was with. And so once I just decided I wasn't going to do that anymore. I was going to live my life to please God. And so from that day to this, that's been my aim. Some people don't understand, but you can't please everybody anyway.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Teenager, People, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I kind of decided that doing music is enough because I'm already running a couple small businesses. I'm a part of Bikini Kill Records, Le Tigre Records, and Digitally Ruined Records. In dealing with my health and everything, my ability to do that? I wouldn't be good at it.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Running, Couple, Records

  Source: allstonpudding.com

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• Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

  Trent Reznor

  Clubs, Matter, Popularity

  "Trent Reznor on Relating to 'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' Darkness; Why Grammys are 'Rigged and Cheap'". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 14, 2011.

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• Go ahead and do things, the bigger the better, if your fundamentals are sound. Avoid procrastination. Do not quibble for an hour over things that might be decided in minutes. However, if the issue at stake is large, stay as long as the next man, but go ahead and do things.

  John J. Raskob

  Procrastination, Men, Issues

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• African Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

  Bebe Moore Campbell

  Thinking, Racism, African American

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• I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.

  Zara Phillips

  Night, Shopping, Long

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• When arranging a tour around the United States I had decided to cross on the Titanic. It was rather a novelty to be on the largest ship yet launched. It was no exaggeration to say that it was quite easy to lose one's way on such a ship.

  Lawrence Beesley

  United States, Way, Ships

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• Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.

  Peer Steinbruck

  Germany, Minorities, Election

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• I've never really collected anything other than old Atari cartridges. I only had, like, 12 Atari games as a kid, so at some point in my 20s I decided I was going to own all of them.

  Ernest Cline

  Kids, Games, Atari

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• I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.

  Peter Gay

  Writing, Use, Deeper

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• It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

  Cynthia Kadohata

  Book, Writing, Years

  "National Book Award Winner Cynthia Kadohata on Self-Editing: 'It involves a lot of flailing around.'". Interview with Maryann Yin, www.adweek.com. November 25, 2013.

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• The crypto currency community hasn't decided whether they want to be anarchist rebels or to replace the establishment.

  Adi Shamir

  Community, Rebel, Want

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• The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've decided to call it Fox News.

  Conan O'Brien

  Party, Government, Chinese

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• We decided long ago that we didn't want Chipotle's success to be tied to the exploitation of animals, farmers, or the environment, but the engagement of our customers.

  Steve Ells

  Animal, Long Ago, Engagement

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• I decided to be confident one day, and then I just was. I think it's a conscious decision. Everything in society tells you to hate yourself, but you know what? If you decide to love yourself, it's an act of revolution.

  Gaby Dunn

  Hate, Love You, Thinking

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• I decided not to give the haters the satisfaction that they got me so bad I gave up.

  Rebecca Black

  Giving, Satisfaction, Gave Up

  "Rebecca Black Talks Friday and Cyberbullying in First Interview" by Chris Lee, www.thedailybeast.com. March 17, 2011.

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• It was at first communicated to you that the Government, by order of the Jemiet had decided to destroy completely all the Armenians living in Turkey...An end must be put to their existence, however criminal the measures taken may be, and no regard must be paid to either age or sex nor to conscientious scruples.

  Talaat Pasha

  Sex, Taken, Order

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• My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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