Decided Quotes - Page 24

• When it comes to family policies, you are dealing with very private issues. Still, my husband and I decided that we didn't want to make our private lives a matter of public discussion.

  Kristina Schroder

  Husband, Issues, Want

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• George W. Bush in 2000 went to private financing for the nomination, but he accepted public funding in the general. And, quite frankly, so did - it was broken in 2008, when Barack Obama decided he wasn't going to do that.

  Mark Shields

  Broken, Nominations, Accepted

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I wanted to be a filmmaker, actually, when I was in high school and college. But I just decided it would be more expensive to do, so I sort of decided music would be more fun.

  Will Sheff

  Fun, School, College

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. May 1, 2007.

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• Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested in the same things I was: popular culture.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Art, School, People

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.

  Little Richard

  Love Is, Bouquets, Language

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• In early 1970, Newsweek's editors decided that the new women's liberation movement deserved a cover story. There was one problem, however: there were no women to write the piece.

  Lynn Povich

  Writing, Editors, Stories

  Lynn Povich (2013). “The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace”, p.4, PublicAffairs

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• I made 'Rio Bravo' with John Wayne. It worked out pretty well and we both liked it, so a few years later we decided to make it again. Worked out pretty good that time, too.

  Howard Hawks

  Years, Wayne, Made

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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

  Writing, Experts, Persons

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• If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Political, Morality

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• I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I've tried my best.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Trying, Care

  "The Biggest Secret to Life (and Work)" by Ayelet Baron, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2017.

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• Positioning should be decided before the advertising is created

  David Ogilvy

  Advertising, Should

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• The idea of creating a national bank I do not concur in, because it seems now decided that Congress has not that power (although I sincerely wish they had it exclusively), and because I think there is already a vast redundancy rather than a scarcity of paper medium.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thinking, Ideas, Creating

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.

  Frederic Chopin

  Heart, Men, Long

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• I used to do Korean classical music and started training to join an idol group after someone set me up an interview with my current agency. The common thing between Korean classical music and becoming a singer is that I get to go on stage which why I decided to get professional training for K-pop music without holding any bias.

  Kim Him-chan

  Agency, Idols, Training

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• I have been challenged by the concept of meditation ... I decided recently to accept the invitation of a friend to experience the sheer silence of meditation-undirected prayer. ... I had before only sensed intellectually ... But by going deep into prayer I could almost feel it.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Prayer, Silence, Meditation

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• Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

  Jasmine Cresswell

  Writing, Romance, Week

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• Years ago I decided that the greatest need in our Country was Art... We were a very young country and had very few opportunities of seeing beautiful things, works of art... So, I determined to make it my life's work if I could.

  Isabella Stewart Gardner

  Beautiful, Country, Art

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• In the 1970s, I bought some cheap horses, then decided that if I was going to be in it, I was going to go big time. So in 2001, Bill Casner, a partner with me in Excel, and I bought a breeding farm, WinStar Farm, together.

  Kenny Troutt

  Horse, Together, Bills

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• Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

  Joseph Kosinski

  School, Design, Littles

  "Exclusive: TRON: LEGACY Director Joseph Kosinski on Easter Eggs, Secret Cameos, IMAX, Daft Punk B-Sides, Reshoots, and so Much More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 23, 2010.

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• I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

  Jason Blum

  Art, People, Found

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• For some years now I have been considering the idea of making a watch that our agents could sell at a more modest price than our Rolex watches, and yet one that could attain the standards of dependability for which Rolex is famous, I decided to form a separate company, with the object of making and marketing this new watch. It is called the Tudor Watch Company.

  Hans Wilsdorf

  Years, Ideas, Marketing

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• 'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Book, Stories, Firsts

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• I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep.

  George S. Clason

  Wealth, Found, Richest Man In Babylon

  George S. Clason, Theresa Puskar (2014). “The Richest Man in Babylon: With Study Guide”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Ideas, Shapes, Taught

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Doris Bry (1988). “Some Memories of Drawings”, Atlantis Editions Book

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• The Baptists believe in The Right to Life before you're born. They also believe in Life After Death, but that is a privilege and you have to earn it by spending the interim in guilt-ridden misery. At an early age I decided that living a life of pious misery in the hope of going to heaven when it's over is a lot like keeping your eyes shut all through a movie in the hope of getting your money back at the end.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Believe, Eye, Heaven

  A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

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