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• If you're a woman and you've decided to step in front of people on any kind of platform and say that you have feelings about anything, you are committing a radical act. People view it as such, so you might as well actually commit a radical act.

  Lizz Winstead

  Views, People, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a museum since I was 18 years old, not for my painting but for the prehistoric objects I found. That's how I started thinking about art.

  Pierre Soulages

  Art, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• PIO card holders- they have lot of visa issues. We decided they will get lifelong visa.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Issues, Cards

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• Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Men

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• I was 21 and had spent the last few years in Stanford University Engineering School at California. Many people advised me to take up a nice, cushy job rather than face the challenges of running a hydrogenated oil business. Looking back, I am glad I decided to take charge instead. Essentially leadership begins from within. It is a small voice that tells you where to go when you feel lost. If you believe in that voice, you believe in yourself.

  Azim Premji

  Inspirational, Running, Jobs

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• Some questions cannot be answered, but they can be decided.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership

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• My friends decided to open a pub and asked me to be part of it. The day-to-day running is something I know little about. Luckily, I'm the demented figurehead, a kind of mascot. I get all the good stuff - like free pork scratchings - without any of the bad stuff.

  Jason Flemyng

  Running, Stuff, Pork

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Like any developing country, it has an inequality of wealth. In the Chinese case, it is particularly [pronounced] by the fact that they decided they couldn't make the whole country move forward simultaneously, so they've started region by region. So the interior regions are much less well off than the coastal regions. And this is certainly a huge challenge, because it produces a flow of populations from the poorer regions to the richer regions.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Moving, Challenges

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think I've been mildly obsessed with my hair. I don't think I have a hugely adversarial relationship with it. One my essay is about my decision to keep coloring my hair once it started to go gray, but once I wrote the essay - once the book was in production - I decided to go gray.

  Elizabeth Benedict

  Book, Thinking, Hair

  Source: nytlive.nytimes.com

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• Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

  John Adams

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Independent

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.114, Penguin

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• I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Trying, Yosemite

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• I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.

  Luke Ford

  Religious, Way, Months

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• I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be in favor of all the things that were decided over 200 years ago by a bunch of slave-owning cross-dressers who pooped in holes.

  Scott Adams

  Years, Ideas, Political

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• In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Rome, Religion

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• It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

  Voltaire

  Sight, Earthquakes, Secret

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.164, Penguin

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• What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.

  Tom Allen

  Country, Important, Looks

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• I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.

  Elizabeth George

  Writing, Age, Literature

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• Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

  Alvin Lee

  School, Years, Way

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• I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.

  Orville Redenbacher

  Popcorn, Might, Wells

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• I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

  John Dyer

  Four, Firsts, Painting

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• I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.

  Sergei Bubka

  Sports, Dream, Clubs

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• The most important thing... was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means to this end, I decided to promote literary movement.

  Lu Xun

  Mean, Important, Movement

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• They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.

  Alvin Lee

  Journey, Thinking, Years

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• I decided to praise my son not when he succeeded at things he was already good at, but when he persevered with things that he found difficult. I stressed to him that by struggling, your brain grows. Between the deep body of research on the field of learning mindsets and this personal experience with my son, I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.

  Salman Khan

  Struggle, Son, Brain

  "The Learning Myth: Why I’ll Never Tell My Son He’s Smart" by Salman Khan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2014.

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• The most terrifying thing that ever happened to me was that Keith Moon decided he liked me.

  Joe Walsh

  Moon, Keith, Happened

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