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• When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then were the folk singers. They all had these high, really nice voices and ranges, like Judy Collins and Joan Baez, and then later, of course, Joni Mitchell and Linda Ronstadt. I decided early on that I was going to learn how to write songs really, really well, because I didn't want to have to compete as a singer. I didn't feel that it was my strong point.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Strong, Nice

  "An Interview with Lucinda Williams". The Believer Magazine, Issue Ninety-One, believermag.com. July 1, 2012.

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• It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to study, in sturdy defiance of the male elders of the family, who protested and decided that I should be married off instead.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Mother, Males, Study

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I have an older sister and my mom would dress us up identically, so in all of our pictures, we're in these giant pink, poufy outfits. I remember when I was four or five, we all went to a theme park and I had to go to the bathroom but couldn't hold it in anymore. Let's just say, I had to buy a brand new outfit! But that moment was the first time I remember ever wearing something different from my sister at an event. It was my breakthrough moment when I decided I was never going to match my sister again!

  Analeigh Tipton

  Mom, Four, Parks

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Musician, Actors, Talent

  "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.

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• I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who are not from here originally but who decided to make this the center of their activities. There's something about that that I find very inspiring and satisfying.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Home, Artist, California

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Wrestling became very stale and boring for me, and I wasn't really making any money with it. So I decided to get into fighting.

  Josh Koscheck

  Wrestling, Fighting, Boring

  Interview with Johnny Testa, www.askmen.com.

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• When [Vladimir] Putin, a former lieutenant-colonel in the KGB, became Russia's president on December 31, 1999 - eight years after the failed coup attempt against (then Soviet leader Mikhail) Gorbachev, and eight years after the people had torn down the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the hated founder of the KGB, in Moscow - it was admittedly a shock. Nevertheless, I decided to give Putin a chance. He seemed dynamic and capable of learning. But I had to bury my hopes after just a few months. He proved to be an autocrat - and, because the West let him do as he pleased, he became a dictator.

  Garry Kasparov

  Kgb, Russia, Eight

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five years of living on television. She had on a long, red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies and I said, "Grandmamma, who is that?" She said, "Baby, that's Lola Falana." I said, "That's it right there. I want to be black, fabulous, and on TV."

  Niecy Nash

  Baby, Butterfly, Eyelashes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I got into architecture because I was searching for a way to produce in the world. I went to art school and thought I would do it through art, but I realized very quickly that I was interested in the social ramifications of form making. So buildings became the vehicle and fulfilled that thing. That satisfied me when I produced them. I decided this is what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

  David Adjaye

  Art, School, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You'll still work with some directors where that doesn't happen, and sometimes it's out of necessity because you're in a really complicated, choreographed fight scene and the whole thing is being prevised in a computer, so it's been decided months before, but I think that's sneaking into the way action scenes are shot.

  Paul Bettany

  Fighting, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• An actor has so much less space and responsibility. Sometimes you come on, and there are already tape marks for where you are supposed to stand, and the dialogue is already decided on. If you want to make a change and contribute something, it has to be approved by a number of people.

  Paul Bettany

  Responsibility, Numbers, Space

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I can no longer face life, so I've decided to go through the rest of it backwards.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Faces, Backwards, I Can

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• A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a pre-determined job, because that's what he decided to do deliberately. But only one out of twenty does that.

  Earl Nightingale

  Jobs, Twenties, Doe

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• Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.

  Russell Banks

  Done, Care, Take Care

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• As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think about coming back, but I am retired, and after speaking to my family and following a great deal of introspection, I have decided to stay retired.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Life, Athlete, Thinking

  "Oscar De La Hoya says he has decided against a comeback" by Dan Rafael, abcnews.go.com. June 29, 2015.

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• If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Determination, Sea, Storm

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• In the middle of the night, if you have decided to do something good for the world, don't wait for the morning to come!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Morning, Night, Waiting

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• What is Hope?Hope is that inner dynamic that compels us to explore and pursue the expectations built into the human condition. Hope was born the day the first human beings discovered the first bridge and decided not to jump off the bridge in despair, but to cross it

  Henri Nouwen

  Bridges, Expectations, Despair

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• So I've decided to be a very rich and famous person who doesn't really care about money, and who is very humble but who still makes a lot of money and is very famous, but is very humble and rich and famous.

  Linus Torvalds

  Humble, Care, Rich

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• The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Thinking, Way

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.231, Random House

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• Charles Darwin got totally hammered, woke up next to a monkey and decided he had to come up with a theory to make it all okay.

  Stephen Colbert

  Monkeys, Next, Come Up

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• For a while, you could decide when you loan the player out whether he plays against you or not, and I always decided that he could play against us. But I must say I didn't get any protection from the media because when the player I loaned out scored against us, it's 'aaahhh, look at him, stupid...'

  Arsene Wenger

  Stupid, Player, Media

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• Everywhere I go the coaches all tell me that Scholsey is the player they admire. But if they think they'll get him they're wasting their time! Paul is a Manc lad pure and simple. He loves the club and there's no chance of him leaving here. If ever he decided to go there would be a stampede, but he won't be going, he's here for life.

  Alex Ferguson

  Simple, Player, Thinking

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• You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Guitar, Play, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Done, Faults, Opinion

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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