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• Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it.

  Eddie Izzard

  Cards, Honest, Transgender

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• I changed the pressure from negative to positive. So, instead of thinking everybody wanted to see me fail, I decided everybody wanted to see me win, since I wanted to see myself win.

  Keke Palmer

  Winning, Thinking, Negative

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like an umpire, that my decisions may cause distress.

  Gore Vidal

  Umpires, Decision, Causes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.

  Marc Maron

  People, Guy, Political

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• I fell in love with Bruce Lee after I watched his movies, and I wanted to become a kung-fu practicer, and I would like to be someone like Bruce Lee. That's why I learned kung-fu, and that's why I picked the wing chun style, because it's his style. That's why I decided to be an actor, to go into show business, because of him.

  Stephen Chow

  Wings, Style, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I did not go to fashion school. I arrived in New York in 1986 from Kansas City and was working as accessories editor for Mademoiselle Magazine. While working at Mademoiselle I noticed that the market lacked stylish and sensible handbags, so I decided to create my own.

  Kate Spade

  Fashion, New York, School

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• I decided to become a teacher because I thought it would be a great career where I could wear different hats. You're an academic one moment, and you're a psychologist the next moment, an athlete the next moment... when you are out on the playground or coaching...so it enables you to play different roles.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Teacher, Athlete, Play

  Source: www.afb.org

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• I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Nice, Challenges, Risk

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• I cannot change you. I cannot change other people. So I have decided to put all of my energy where I have the most leverage , where I know I can make a difference. Instead of being upset that this world is not populated the way I want it to be populated, I have decided to become the citizen that I want the world to be populated with. That's how I create the vision.

  Gary Zukav

  Differences, People, Upset

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• I started [flying] by being scared. When I was an amateur I played a couple tournaments and I had to fly, and got into weather and stuff, and it scared me, and I decided that would not work, I had to learn to fly, I had to find out about airplanes and aeronautical engineering and what it was all about.

  Arnold Palmer

  Couple, Airplane, Engineering

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Desire, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• There is that within a man that drives him ever onwards, just as the power of the seasons drives the roots of flowers into the hard earth; and so he decided, against his better judgment, to open his eyes and find out what was going to happen to him next.

  Tom Holt

  Hope, Flower, Ambition

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• I can't imagine being a woman in the world of acting, like where you age starts to weigh you down - you go from being attractive to where they [directors] decided you're out... I feel like with stand-up comedy, it doesn't matter if I've gotten fatter.

  Jim Jefferies

  Acting, Age, Directors

  Source: www.portlandmercury.com

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• The people who decided in their wisdom that we're all going to go over to ebooks, they are not readers. These are technical people. These are people who think that somehow this is progress. It isn't. It's regressive.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, People, Progress

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• We have to find areas in our lives that we feel most uncomfortable about and want to change. I decided to push myself because it allowed me to give back. I have a scholarship program. When I found out the average age of a homeless person is 9½ years old, I said there must be something that I can do. Now, I am the spokesman for the National Coalition for the Homeless.

  Farrah Gray

  Average, Years, Giving

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• I always thought that eventually there would be a moment where I realized that I had practiced enough and now I was ready to be a professional writer. Then I befriended a number of successful professional writers and realized that none of them ever felt ready. After that I decided I might as well stop waiting to feel ready and just get started.

  Cassandra Clare

  Successful, Numbers, Waiting

  WriteWords Interview, www.writewords.org.uk. July 31, 2007.

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• As a youngster, I read of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction. And as a fighter pilot, I observed the selection of the Mercury astronauts. All this was fascinating, but I really didn't think I would ever be a part of it. It was only when my good friend Ed White was selected as a Gemini astronaut that I decided to join NASA as part of the Apollo program.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Good Friend, Thinking, White

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me. The older kids decided to pick me on me starting when I was about 6 and it didn't take me long to take a stand for myself.

  Bo Jackson

  Kids, Long, Tough

  Source: whatmakesagreatathlete.weebly.com

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• I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star; are they a troll? Are they someone who hates my politics and so has decided to do that?

  Anna Quindlen

  Stars, Hate, Writing

  Source: urbanmoms.ca

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• I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

  Dick Gregory

  White, America, Black

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• I decided I was gonna call myself cause Gucci Mane cause that was my father's name. His nickname was Gucci Mane. That's what my grandmother called my father. People would call me Gucci Mane every now and then, but honestly, that was his name.

  Gucci Mane

  Father, Grandmother, Names

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• For some reason, everyone says "fashion is responsible for skinny models." I don't believe that myself. I believe consumers dictate commercial success and trends in a capitalistic society. So I believe if consumers wanted to see - like, who decided that Barney the Dinosaur was going to be a million-dollar industry?

  Kelly Cutrone

  Fashion, Believe, Dollars

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• 50 is a great person. I was a little intimidated when I met him for the first time in 2006. I didn't know what to expect. It ended up we got along really well. That's why we decided to do a book together, The 50th Law of Power.

  Robert Greene

  Book, Law, Together

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• I wanted to write a story that was different than what I've done before - so I decided to write dual love stories that will keep the reader wondering how the stories will come together by the end.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Together, Stories

  Source: www.ftd.com

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• My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie. I realized why my father was so interested in him, because he was really an incredibly modernizing voice inside our Islamic culture.

  Salman Rushdie

  Father, Philosophy, Islamic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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