Decided Quotes
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I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.
Ray Kurzweil
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We have never pushed it far enough to know, but we decided 47 percent was the right percentage. You can quote us on that. It's very mathematical.
Cinco Paul
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She’d decided she’d try to stick it out until halftime when she saw a face that made her scream and jump off the sofa.
Brenda Novak
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I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.
William Arthur Ward
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I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it foolishly. This developed over the years. In my heart, I don't see myself as a criminal.
Wolfgang Beltracchi
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He got out of the car. He stood out in the heat. I knew he was trying to organize himself. Like a messy room that needed to be cleaned up. I left him alone for a while. But then, I decided I wanted to be with him. I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?
Epictetus
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I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.
Judy Blume
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All I can think is that the owners of Chick-Fil-A have decided they have had enough, that they're just going to focus on selling chicken sandwiches to as many people as they can, and they figure that keeping their views about marriage to themselves is better than having a bunch of angry activists on your doorstep.
Mike Gallagher
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I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine.
Ernie Harwell
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I decided that I want to live the rest of my life happy with what I'm doing. So when I play tennis again, I have to play it for the right reason. I don't want to play to get my No. 1 ranking back. I don't want to play for the attention, or to earn more. I don't even want to play because the world wants to see me do it, even though it's nice to know that the world is interested. I only want to play because I love the game, which is the reason I began to play at age seven in the first place.
Monica Seles
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When I decided to go to L.A. I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York.
Estella Warren
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I don't know what the heck he was thinking. He just decided to pass everybody in one corner, and he ended up taking everybody out,
Helio Castroneves
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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
Ernest Hemingway
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After I graduated from the University of Glasgow, I was a self-employed archaeologist going from dig to dig around Scotland, and it was not well-paid. I was an excavator, not a lecturer as well, so paying rent on a flat was tricky. In the end I decided to retrain as a journalist as I couldn't see a future in it.
Neil Oliver
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Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
Blaise Pascal
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I thought I was terrible [to play a cameo] and decided never to act again.
Paul Auster
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I decided this would be the big break.
John Raitt
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Myers decided to take over the first three quarters. He was pretty tough to stop.
Ed McClanahan
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I talk about myself. That's what I am. I'm a blogger. I have always decided that I was going to be an expert on one thing, and I am an expert on this person, and so I write about it.
Mena Grabowski Trott
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In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.
Marilyn Monroe
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A few decades ago, the Irish decided they were tired of being always near the bottom of Europe's economic indicators. So they envisioned a better future for their country, and they put their people on the right road to get there.
Evan Bayh
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We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us.' The government does not in any accurate sense 'represent' the majority of the people. But, even if it did, even if 70 percent of the people decided to murder the remaining 30 percent, this would still be murder and would not be voluntary suicide on the part of the slaughtered minority. No organicist metaphor, no irrelevant bromide that 'we are all part of one another,' must be permitted to obscure this basic fact.
Murray Rothbard