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“If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.”

People Ifs Trying Believe Self Problem Energy Hurt Depression Decided Mood Pity Cheer Self Pity Time And Energy Cheer Up Bad Mood

Author:Joyce Meyer

“It's amazing how much information is coming at us most of the time through technology, the media and the busyness of the world around us. I've decided that the world probably isn't going to change, so I have to change. I'm learning how to keep my mind on what I'm doing, rather than thinking about several things at once or what I want to do next.”

Thinking World Want Mind Next Technology Media Information Decided

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.”

Ifs Giving Two Feelings Pleasure Moral Decided Obligation Desirable Preference Moral Obligation

Book:Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin

Source: Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin

“When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally so I jumped the border. I didn’t speak any English.”

Years Enough Age America Speak Decided Borders

Author:Cesar Millan

“Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.”

Stupid Decided Shallow

Author:Joni Mitchell

“I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to the airport, looked at the departure board, and decided where I wanted to go right then and there. I spent four days in Rome and didn't tell anyone I was going.”

Wanted Four Decided Shooting Boards Rome Airports Departure Cab Days Off Budapest

Author:Cory Monteith

“I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women - including me - face. I didn't think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it.”

Thinking Giving Trying Character Stories Beautiful Film Faces Chance Acting Hell Honest Serious Decided Including Scripts Committed Lovely Insecurity

Author:Emily Mortimer

“Well, I've been happily supporting myself for ten years now on the hustle and trade of live entertainment. I guess my breakthrough moment was when I decided to go for it once and for all.”

Years Wells Moments Ten Decided Trade Entertainment Breakthrough Hustle

Author:Jason Mraz

“We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.”

Government Happens Political Environment Policy Decided Priorities Thrust Make It Happen

Author:Brian Mulroney

“So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.”

Can Do Decided Bills Gates Crew Microsoft Larry Oracles Databases Microsoft Word

Author:Ted Nelson

“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.”

Ifs Art Flower Huge Decided Paint Scales If I Could Woman Artist

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.”

Learning Taught Flower Letting Go Decided Georgia Starting Anew Charcoal

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: nature and abstraction

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: nature and abstraction

“Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does matter, and several local races have been decided by as many votes as you can count on one hand.”

People Doe Has Beens Different Matter Hands Bigs Individual Race Cities One Thing Decided Vote Towns Election Locals Big Cities Election Day

Author:Susan Orlean

“I love living in Utah. I was born here but raised in L.A., but we decided about 13, 14 years ago to come here to Utah.”

Years Born Years Ago Decided Raised Utah

Author:Donny Osmond

“People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.”

People Ifs Giving Writing Body Wanted Next Asks Arms Decided Legs Ask Me Next Time Autographs Tattooed Arms And Legs

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.”

Knows Seems Decided Arbitrary Skinny

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“If we were going to default, we would have decided that many months ago. It would be wrong for the Greek economy, it would be wrong for the European economy, it would make things worse in the end. That's why we're taking the pain and making these structural reforms, and we're on target.”

Ifs Ends Would Be Pain Economy Months Decided Reform Greek Target Default

Author:George Papandreou

“After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.”

Writing Belief Decided Publishers Posterity Turned Down

Author:George Ade

“I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.”

People Trying Years I Can Eye Girl Given Boys Decided Sight Blessed Organs Donors Donate Organ Donor

Author:Mandy Patinkin

“I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.”

People Want Writing I Can Young Girl Can Do Stupid Color Decided Purple

Author:Danica Patrick

“I have been lucky, of course. Like, last year, if I went out, I'd have to fight to chat someone up. This year, I look exactly the same, which is really scruffy, and yet lots of people seem to have just changed their minds and decided I'm really sexy.”

People Ifs Years Mind Looks Has Beens Seems Lasts Fighting Courses Changed Lucky Decided Sexy Last Year

Author:Robert Pattinson

“There's a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can't meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.”

Needs Trying I Can Shows Fans Tvs Huge Demand Decided Entertainment Tv Shows

Author:Tyler Perry

“When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.”

Ifs Way Giving Trying Stills Ideas Done Play Night Money Giving Up Musician Decided Profit Bells Lots Of Money Petty Tacos Taco Bell

Author:Tom Petty

“We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.”

Made Done Kids Stuff Parent Issues Mom Dad Conscious Decided Faults Damage Mom And Dad Damage Is Done

Author:Chris Pine

“I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.”

Want Mean Artist Song Stuff Decided Get Up Embarrassed Bad Ass Badass

Author:Pink

“I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.”

Father Dad Decided Fatherhood Positively Fathers Day Father Son

Author:Sidney Poitier

“I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult, and I decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces that I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.”

Ifs Kind Form Force Disease Findings Decided Insult Wretched Alzheimer Alzheimer's Atrophy

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.”

Imagination My Own Perfect Draws Decided

Author:Jack Prelutsky

“I played bass for a year, but I wasn't getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see my friends.”

Years My Friends Decided Get Better Bass

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I'm tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It's hilarious. So we decided that I'm going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.”

Ifs Thinking Children Waiting Steps Support Wife Tough Decided My Wife Going To Work Trust Me Naughty Donkey

Author:Gordon Ramsay

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.”

Inspirational Humor Reality Liberty Teaching Capitalism Decided Hardest Live Life Thrive Evident Hardest Thing Fountainhead

Author:Ayn Rand

“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.”

People Long Motivational Leadership Business Policy Authority Decided Management Surround Interfere Surround Yourself Delegates Surround Yourself With People Delegation Top Management Surround Yourself With Good People Surround Yourself With Positive People

Author:Ronald Reagan

“I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.”

Trying Years Two America Remember Moving Waiting Drink Decided Upset Canada Two Years

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“So I decided on science when I was in college.”

College Decided

Author:Sally Ride

“When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.”

Feels Done Mother Artist Three Doors Industry Prove Models Decided Size Labels Typical Divorced Music Industry Closed Doors Single Mother

Author:Jenni Rivera

“A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.”

“They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.”

Persons Art Would Be Mother Artist Modern Painting Decided Contemporary Progressive Museums Modern Art

Author:David Rockefeller

“You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.”

Ifs Sides Wonder Watches Team Mets Basketball Decided These Days Playgrounds

Author:Dennis Rodman

“I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.”

Stills Stories Knowing Design Draws Decided University Boards Cartoonist Movie Making Design Work

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.”

Firsts I Can Choices Term Acting Decided Down And Profession Being The Best Buckles

Author:Mickey Rourke

“I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.”

Writing Decided Plot Outlines Outlining

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.”

Today President Leader Modern Decided American History Pits

Author:Marco Rubio

“I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.”

Desire Decided Comic

Author:Rita Rudner

“I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.”

Trying Months Decided Luck Eight Chicago Firefighter Fireman

Author:Carl Sandburg

“I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.”

Way Writing Happens Literature My Own Clear Style Poet Decided Experiments

Book:Ever the Winds of Chance

Source: Ever the Winds of Chance

“I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.”

People Knows Long Enough Would Be Decided Guitar Albums Singers Conclusion Melody Nevertheless

Author:Carlos Santana

“Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.”

Jobs Literature Possibility Findings Decided

Author:Jose Saramago

“You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.”

Decision Numbers Military New York Decided Court Lawyer Attorney Venues Right Decision Jurisdiction Tribunals

Author:Joe Biden

“Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.”

Action Courses Appreciate Decided Sarcastic Approval

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.”

Way Giving Commitment Argument Decided This Day Emancipation Acres Donkey Proclamation Reparations Mules Hoover Emancipation Proclamation

Author:Al Sharpton

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