Decided Quotes - Page 40

• I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Moving, America, Culture

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• Who are you talking to right now? Who is it you think you see? Do you know how much I make a year? I mean, even if I told you, you wouldn't believe it. Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work? A business big enough that it could be listed on the NASDAQ goes belly up. Disappears. It ceases to exist, without me.

  Walter White

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Walter White". TV Series "Breaking Bad", www.imdb.com. 2008-2013.

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• We have talked about revoking French citizenship for some individuals. Therefore, I have decided to apply for citizenship, which in a way points out the contradictions of this bill that states the forfeiture of French citizenship exclusively to individuals holding dual nationalities. Through this application, I put myself in the midst of the French political debate and discredit everything that might be said against me about this matter.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Political, Might, Bills

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• I looked at the pilgrims coming to America. In their first year, they decided to try a communist experiment. And the first year of the pilgrims, they established this socialistic concept: 'Well, we have all this land before us - let us all work it together.' Oh, how wonderful it sounded. 'Let us all work it together, and we will share in the produce of the land.' They almost starved to death! Almost half of them died, that very first year.

  Ted Cruz

  Years, Land, America

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

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• We could still have continued the arms race, but the arms race was pointless, and it was another reason we decided to start perestroika. It was senseless to continue to accumulate weapons. We had enough weapons to destroy life on Earth 1,000 times, and therefore it was very clear to us that the arms race could spiral out of control. A conflict could have started, as both the Americans and the Soviets realized, not out of a wrong political decision but because of a failure in the command-and-control systems.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Race, Command And Control, Decision

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• There have been a few little films I'd done like that that the studio just decided not to do much with, films like Anywhere but Here [1999] or Jeff, Who Lives at Home [2012]. Thank God people find them later and love them. I'm always really drawn to people who have seen these strange little films.

  Susan Sarandon

  Home, People, Thank God

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• There are people who are originals and the stuff they make really is new. It isn't based on anything else. But I've decided I'm not that-I was never that. My abilities are to synthesize a wide range of references and ideas into something that feels relatively unified and coherent.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Ideas, People, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but I decided I was going to be an artist but I'm really mad for art history and the masters mostly.

  Robert Barry

  Art, School, Thinking

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I'm a girl from South Carolina. I was raised in a middle class family and decided to major in broadcast journalism and now I'm at the national level and that doesn't happen to most people and I realize that. I know that I'm very fortunate but this great country allowed that to work in my favor.

  Ainsley Earhardt

  Girl, Country, Class

  Source: www.elle.com

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• [Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone else in the 20th century in persuading Woodrow Wilson to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Age, Movement, Influential

  Source: www.slate.com

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• You get caught up in a cycle at some point, so I broke the cycle and decided; I'm going to really write a lot of books, because I need to get in touch with that part of myself in order to make more music.

  Gerard Way

  Book, Writing, Order

  "Until I'm Done Or Until I Get Fired: Gerard Way On His Plans For Young Animal". Interview With Andrew Wheeler, comicsalliance.com. April 21, 2016.

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• I found two true stories. One was in 2003. One was the beginning of 2004. I decided to meld them. Richard Davis' story which is the largest portion of this, a lot of the events are exactly as you saw, exactly what happened and the locations. Exactly as it was said with the chicken house and the strip club. Richard's parents were on the set and they'll tell you that the story is different than their son's. I was very concerned because I called them to say, 'You understand I'm fictionalizing this story?

  Paul Haggis

  Son, Two, Parent

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• I've decided to just keep doing Oh, Hello, where I play an older man who thinks he's very cultured. That clearly has not gone away.

  Nick Kroll

  Men, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I went through elementary school being bullied and teased. I remember someone - I can't recall his name, but I can see his face - who decided on the school bus, when I was ten or eleven, to call me "Percy." That was somehow supposed to connect to the fact that I wasn't very athletic. I was, in fact, also not very coordinated. I was not very masculine, by the standards of ten-year-olds. I remember being on the school bus and everyone chanting, "Percy! Percy! Percy!" at me.

  Andrew Solomon

  School, Years, Names

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• This particular one was very, very heartwarming and is the relationship of an older man and a young boy that are essentially on the run. And so yeah, as I say, Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and this one got into the hands of Taika Watiti who then writing the screenplay decided to really vamp up if that's the word, or ramp up and modernize certain phrases - getting in the humor. So he added a lot of a real comedy perspective onto it which is what I think the story needed anyway, especially for it to turn into a film. And it worked.

  Rhys Darby

  Running, Real, Book

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I had ideas about music and sound and listening and time and so on that I wanted to pursue as an individual, and by doing that book, Brian [Eno] opened the door, and he decided to do a record based loosely on the book.

  David Toop

  Book, Ideas, Doors

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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• The idea for Anthem the play began over twenty years ago. I was assisting in the production of another Ayn Rand work, Ideal. I moved to New York and began working on producing the play with my partners. And as a way to raise money to cover some venture debt, we decided to stage Anthem for a limited run at the Lex Theatre in Hollywood.

  Jeff Britting

  Running, New York, Years

  Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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• I have decided that now is not the right time for me to run for the leadership - though I remain completely committed to ensuring we secure our position as a great trading nation with sensible controls on migration. I believe that Theresa May has the strength, judgment and values to deliver those things.

  Jeremy Hunt

  Running, Believe, Judgement

  "Theresa May launches Tory leadership bid with pledge to unite country" by Jessica Elgot and Rowena Mason, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2016.

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• I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated.

  Gretchen Carlson

  America, Parent, Missing

  Source: frankviola.org

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• In the Miss America system talent is worth 50 percent of a contestant's points so my mom encouraged me to give it a try. And once I decided to do it, like anything else, I gave it 110 percent.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Mom, America, Giving

  Source: frankviola.org

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• Just before I left [Cuba], I was about to transfer to the university. I had decided I had had enough experience in work in the manual areas. But then I got word from the United States that I could return...that my party had gathered enough information about the false charges that were against me for me to return to the United States.

  Huey Newton

  Party, Information, Had Enough

  Source: www.afro.com

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• I decided to try things, and I started to do things that would take me out of my comfort zone, and a lot of the times, that will cause you to either sink or swim. Really, I just lean on my inner circle and my faith to try to continue to encourage me so that I'm never out. I can be down, but I'm never out.

  Omar Benson Miller

  Circles, Swim, Trying

  "Weekend Fix Actor Omar Benson Miller: Trying, Doing, and Failing". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to college, I decided that I wanted to perform as well, and that's where I started.

  Rhea Seehorn

  Writing, School, College

  "Rhea Seehorn of Better Call Saul: Learning from Loved Ones". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I decided at the outset to invest in a fairly broad range of businesses, as I didn't want to get pigeonholed into one sector.

  Andy Murray

  Want, Range, Broads

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• This year I've really decided to get into the best shape of my life, and I've gotten there by changing not only what I eat but when I eat and how often, as well as my usual workout routine. The combination has made such a big difference, and I finally feel in the best shape of my life.

  Brian McKnight

  Workout, Years, Differences

  "Interview: Musician Brian McKnight". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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