“I got a tooth bust by somebody who decided they didn't like me and I thought the moustache hid a scar on my lip. It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.” PeopleHairDecidedLipsBritishTeethLike MeScarAppreciatedFacialMoustacheFacial HairNot Appreciated Author:Bob Ainsworth
“Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.” PeopleWantGivingYearsJobsFourDegreesDecidedFour YearsEmployersBreadth Author:Bill Gates
“I can't relate to the idea of suicide. I guess I'm just one of those people that is always optimistic and upbeat. But one day, I sat down. I said 'You know what? Just to kind of purge myself, I want to see what its like to feel that low'. So I decided to write a suicide note. Yeah, just to kinda flush it out there and put it on a page. And I started to do this, and I had an epiphany. I'll share this with you: a suicide note that is written by somebody that is not suicidal is called an autobiography. I am on Chapter 58.” PeopleKnowsWantFeelsWritingKindSaidI CanIdeasWrittenShareOne DayPagesLowsDecidedYeahSuicideNotesOptimisticRelateSatJust OneChaptersAutobiographySuicidalEpiphanyUpbeatSuicide Note Author:Dane Cook
“I never wanted to be a businessman; I was a craftsman and good at working with my hands. At some point, I decided that this company is my best resource. Patagonia now exists to put into practice all the things that smart people are saying we have to do not only to save the planet but to save the economy.” PeopleHandsWantedCompanyPracticeEconomyPlanetsSmartResourcesDecidedBusinessmanSmart PeopleCraftsmanSave The PlanetPatagonia Author:Yvon Chouinard
“People of Haiti, I am the heir to the political philosophy, the doctrine and the revolution which my late father incarnated as president-for-life [and] I have decided to continue his work with the same fierce energy and the same intransigence.” PeoplePhilosophyPoliticalFatherEnergyPresidentRevolutionLateDecidedDoctrineFiercePolitical PhilosophyHeirsHaiti Author:Jean-Claude Duvalier
“Creating my own roles, as an actor, is great. You're so at the mercy of other people, and you're waiting for a job. That's just a horrible way to live, so I just decided to take matters into my own hands, find my own projects, and create them myself, and then do other stuff that people might throw my way as well.” PeopleWayWellsMatterHandsMightJobsActorsStuffWaitingMy OwnRolesProjectsCreatingDecidedMercyHorribleMy WayWay To Live Author:Catherine Bell
“Thanksgiving is a holiday that brought together two different cultures. The pilgrims came here with the best intentions. They decided to flee an oppressive people and move to a new land. Where they thrived. And became an oppressive people. You get certain people on the same continent, there's going to be a problem. Pilgrims and Indians. Protestants, Catholics. My family, anybody else's family.” PeopleTwoDifferentProblemTogetherMovingCertainCultureLandMy FamilyDecidedCatholicIntentionHolidayContinentsProtestantsPilgrimDifferent CulturesBest Intentions Author:Christopher Titus
“I traveled for seven years, and when I came back home I was completely lost. I didn't know what to do with my life, so I decided to let people decide for me. For month I followed strangers on the street. For the pleasure of following, not because the party interested me. I photographed them without their knowledge, took note of their movements, and finally lost sight of them. At the end of January 1980, I chose a man and followed him to Venice. That's how I started. That's all.” PeopleKnowsMenYearsEndsHomeLostPleasurePartyStreetsMovementMonthsDecidedSightNotesSevenFollowingStrangerTraveledSeven YearsBack HomeVeniceJanuary Author:Sophie Calle
“You have to get hurt. That's how you learn. The strongest people out there, the ones who laugh the hardest with a genuine smile, those are the people who have fought the toughest battles. Because they've decided that they're not going to let anything hold them down, they're showing the world who's boss. One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.” PeopleWorldHurtLaughingBattleDecidedTransformationPreparedWaveGenuineEndlessHardestBossStrongestBe PreparedGenuine Smiles Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.” PeopleFeelsHomeHappensSchoolCultureOpportunityGivenChanceWhiteEffortPracticeStudyRichMovementReturnDecidedWestWesternParisCustomsAllowingSolidarityFundamentalistOxfordOther CulturesExpatriates Author:Umberto Eco
“I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.” PeopleKnowsMy OwnKnow HowTalentDecidedLabelsMusic Business Author:Mary J. Blige
“I actually only went to high school for six weeks. I lost sleep deciding on what I would wear the next day or who I had to impress. I was just a much more down-to-earth, relaxed person once I decided not to care what people thought of me.” PeoplePersonsCareSchoolEarthNextLostSleepWeekSixHigh SchoolDecidedImpressNext DayRelaxedDown To Earth Author:Hope Partlow
“We decided we'd have to do something pretty drastic to make people realise that I wasn't going to parade about in ra-ra skirts for the rest of the century. And I'm not going to parade about in black evening gowns on tour!” PeopleBlackCenturyDecidedEveningRealisingSkirtsParadesGownsDrasticEvening Gowns Author:Clare Grogan
“I never used to watch horror films because I was a nervous type. I believed all the publicity about The Exorcist when it was released - you know, all that nonsense about people fainting in the cinema - and decided it would definitely freak me out. I particularly remember my girlfriend telling me about Suspiria - ironic considering my first ever film work was with Argento - and how scary it was.” PeopleKnowsFirstsRememberFilmUsedWatchesTypeHorrorDecidedScaryNervousCinemaGirlfriendNonsenseIronicFreakConsideringPublicityMy GirlfriendHorror FilmExorcistFainting Author:Simon Boswell
“I'm a Christian. Years ago, I went broke, so I decided to run every part of my life according to the Bible. It sounds hokey, but it works. You run your marriage that way, and it works. It will work with business, too, and finances. Treat people like you want to be treated.” PeopleWayWantYearsRunningChristianSoundLike YouYears AgoDecidedTreatsTreatedFinanceBrokeWorking It Author:Dave Ramsey
“We recognize that North Korea is in severe financial straits, and they have decided to use their resources to build their military, rather than to feed their people and to take care of the various humanitarian responsibilities that they have.” PeopleUseCareResponsibilityMilitaryResourcesDecidedFinancialVariousTake CareHumanitarianSevereKoreaNorth Korea Author:Benjamin Carson
“I worked hard at that through most of the '80s, and in 1990 my house burned in New Hampshire, and my studios and my offices. I had to decide at what level to rebuild, and I decided that I was going to stop trying to be all things to all people, and just go back to playing the guitar.” PeopleTryingHardHouseLevelsOfficeAll ThingsDecidedGuitarStudiosBurned80sStop TryingHampshireNew Hampshire Author:Tom Rush
“Our lives aren't even about doing real things most of the time. We think and talk about people we've never met, pretend to visit places we've never actually been to, discuss things that are just names as though they were as real as rocks or animals or something. Information Age - Hell it's the Imagination Age. We're living in our own minds. No, she decided as the plane began its steep descent, really we're living in other people's minds.” PeopleThinkingMindRealAgeNamesImaginationAnimalHellOur LivesRocksInformationMetsDecidedPlanesReal ThingsDescentSteepInformation Age Author:Tad Williams
“I quickly decided my zombies weren't really zombies. It was instead something you called people who were on this club drug, who then exhibited aggressive behaviors. And then like everyone who writes about zombies, I found it was so much fun.” PeopleWritingFoundFunDrugBehaviorDecidedClubsAggressiveZombie Author:Jess Walter
“Intimacy is important in my work because I don't understand existence without intimacy. All of us are dependent on other people - and in ways we don't know. You cross the street and assume that person isn't crazy, they don't want to mow me down with their car. I don't know that person but I am already in a relationship with them. I am asking them to abide by the traffic laws. If they decided not to, I'd be dead. Even in those anonymous ways, we're in relationships.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWantPersonsImportantLawExistenceCrazyStreetsCarCrossesDecidedAskingAssumingIntimacyDependentTraffic Author:Claudia Rankine
“The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.” PeopleBlackWhiteTechnologyColorTvsDecidedInvestmentDefinitionsBlack And WhiteNew TechnologyOld Technology Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.” PeopleWantedSpeakDecidedApologizingFormat Author:India.Arie
“When you're spending that much time by yourself in your car looking at landscapes, it's desolate. Most of the other people around you are invisible in their own cars. You're driving past houses where maybe once in a while somebody is out, but that's about it. So I was interested in that aesthetic and I decided I wanted to write an apocalyptic narrative, but the more I thought of it, it seemed bizarre and untenable to me to pick one, so I just didn't.” PeopleWritingWantedPastHouseCarPicksDecidedSpendingDrivingInvisibleLandscapeNarrativeAestheticBizarreApocalypticDesolate Author:Lucy Corin
“This is why I decided to work with Nike, too, because it is even more mass-market than Givenchy and could make entry-price shoes and make people dream to be part of the journey.” PeopleDreamJourneyMassDecidedShoesEntryNikeGivenchy Author:Riccardo Tisci
“That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some place in the Ozarks that she decided was disadvantaged, and announcing that something had to be done. And she had a very active social conscience, which I think in general is to her credit, although it tended, as many people thought, to just be overdone to the point where it gave rise to this crack that she regarded the whole world as one vast slum project” PeopleThinkingWorldCountryDoneWholeSocialProjectsConscienceDecidedCreditActiveImpressionWhole WorldCracksSlumsEleanorDescendingAnnouncingDisadvantagedOzarks Author:William A. Rusher
“Since the president's [Barack Obama] lost all of that [majority in Senate], he now has decided he's just going to write laws on his own. He's going to give us edicts, as if he's a king. And that is a petulant child. He's refusing to listen to the will of the American people, which is they reject his policies.” PeopleIfsGivingWritingChildrenLawLostPresidentPolicyKingsDecidedMajorityBarackRejectsSenate Author:Chris Christie
“I decided to write Leadership BS because I was irritated by the hypocrisy in the leadership literature and the fact that many of the people writing leadership books exhibited behavior that was precisely the opposite of what they advocated and also what they claimed they did. Stories did not seem to be a good foundation on which to build a science of leadership.” PeopleWritingBookFactsStoriesSeemsLiteratureBehaviorDecidedOppositesFoundationHypocrisyIrritated Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“There are good guys, and there are congressional people who are good guys, and I certainly vote in those elections. You know, my fondest dream would be if Obama, when he got out of office, decided he was going to go back and organize on the streets. He'd be the only person I could imagine who could really create a movement similar to what King did, and God knows we need that now.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsPersonsDreamWould BeGuyImagineStreetsMovementKingsOfficeDecidedVoteElectionOrganizeGod KnowsGood Guy Author:Joan Baez
“I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just wanted it to be something that was important...something that would make a difference in people's lives or leave an imprint in history.” PeopleImportantWantedDifferencesDecidedMovedPainterMaking A DifferenceAdolescenceAnimator Author:Evangeline Lilly
“[My friend and I] decided, we'll go to Corsicana, and we'll see what the people in Corsicana say. ... We just started meeting people and talking to them, and the more I heard the stories, the more red flags kept popping up. There was this disconnect between this person [Todd Willingham] that I'm reading in the court records, the prosecutor's statements, and this person that I'm learning about.” PeoplePersonsStoriesReadingTalkingRecordsHeardMy FriendsRedDecidedCourtMeetingsStatementsFlagsProsecutorPoppingRed Flags Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“The United Nations was the thing I wanted to work for. Like the United Nations Commission for Refugees is what I was interested in. And then people said if you do that you'll hit glass ceilings all the time, because you are not Ghanian or Nigerian and that's the way to progress though a multinational organization like that. In any event, they said do five years' legal experience and come back. And after five years I decided to stay where I was. So I am really an accidental lawyer.” PeopleIfsWayYearsSaidWantedNationsUnitedFiveProgressEventsDecidedOrganizationGlassesLawyerFive YearsThey SaidRefugeeUnited NationsCeilingsMultinationalsGlass Ceiling Author:John Gimlette
“I worked at a bunch of other salons, and at one, this girl was going out to do a photo shoot for a women's magazine and brought me along to assist her. I remember going on that shoot and thinking, "God, this is great. It's creative, and you get to work with all of these other creative people." At that point I decided that hair would be my in to fashion and all the things I thought I would enjoy - and did enjoy.” PeopleThinkingWould BeRememberGirlEnjoyCreativeFashionHairDecidedBunchMagazinesGoing OutCreative PeopleThis GirlPhoto ShootsSalonsThinking God Author:Guido Palau
“Sometimes people won't even finish a piece that you wrote, because they've already decided what it is that you want to say, and generally I, whatever I say in the first half of the piece, you should not assume I'm going to end up with, but they don't finish reading them. So, and people read fast and stuff.” PeopleWantShouldFirstsEndsSometimesReadingStuffHalfPiecesDecidedAssuming Author:Louis Menand
“After a lot of debate and a lot of work, what people decided is, it makes a great deal of sense to be open in the system and allow people to begin to build better flu vaccines. I mean, we're still making them in eggs that come out of chickens. And we can see the consequences of that with the current H1N1 lack of vaccines.” PeopleMeanStillsDealsConsequenceDecidedCurrentsDebateEggsChickensFluVaccinesFlu Vaccine Author:Juan Enriquez
“There have been a few little films I'd done like that that the studio just decided not to do much with, films like Anywhere but Here [1999] or Jeff, Who Lives at Home [2012]. Thank God people find them later and love them. I'm always really drawn to people who have seen these strange little films.” PeopleLittlesHas BeensDoneHomeFilmStrangeDecidedAnd LoveStudiosThank GodAnywhere But Here Author:Susan Sarandon
“There are people who are originals and the stuff they make really is new. It isn't based on anything else. But I've decided I'm not that-I was never that. My abilities are to synthesize a wide range of references and ideas into something that feels relatively unified and coherent.” PeopleFeelsIdeasStuffAbilityDecidedOriginalsWideRangeUnified Author:Steven Soderbergh
“There seems to be for a long time now a range of issues that the Australian people want to talk about, but for some reason politicians of various shapes and stripes have decided they don't want to talk about.” PeopleWantLongReasonSeemsIssuesPoliticianShapesLong TimeDecidedVariousRangeAustralianStripes Author:Cory Bernardi
“I'm a girl from South Carolina. I was raised in a middle class family and decided to major in broadcast journalism and now I'm at the national level and that doesn't happen to most people and I realize that. I know that I'm very fortunate but this great country allowed that to work in my favor.” PeopleKnowsCountryHappensGirlRealizingLevelsClassMiddleMajorsDecidedSouthRaisedFavorsJournalismFortunateMiddle ClassCarolinaGreat CountrySouth CarolinaMiddle Class FamilyBroadcast Journalism Author:Ainsley Earhardt
“Normally when people say they haven't decided, they're being polite but they're definitely not voting for you. I think it's different this time. People are thinking hard about the issues.” PeopleThinkingDifferentHardIssuesHavensDecidedVotingPoliteBeing PoliteNot VotingThinking Hard Author:David Cameron
“It usually happens spur of the moment, like when I broke up My Chemical Romance, it was just that day that I decided it was time for them to be done. And people were very upset about it so I have to choose my next victims carefully.” PeopleDoneMomentsHappensRomanceNextDecidedVictimBrokeUpsetChemicalsSpursBroke UpSpur Of The Moment Author:Mark Hoppus
“I really like the melody "Red Wine Is Good For My Heart" and people respond to it. I decided to put it on the album.” PeopleHeartMy HeartRedDecidedWineAlbumsMelodyRed Wine Author:Cheyenne Jackson
“People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people's minds to lazy minds.” PeopleMindHas BeensMadeUnderstandingInterestDirectorsDecidedTheaterCuriosityProducersCinemaSeatsLazyPeers Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“It's funny: not only with the title of the album but also the song [It's Decided]. I kind of felt nostalgic. The beginning lyric is, "There's almost a sentimental feeling to another time," and when I got together with Kevin, he just absolutely, in his own fashion, just pushed me to go deeper than I usually would want people to know. That was the most difficult part for me was to bring someone in.” PeopleKnowsWantKindFeelingsTogetherSongFeltDifficultFashionDecidedAlbumsDeeperTitlesSentimentalNostalgicKevinAnother Time Author:Andy Kim
“I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed it out. Then I decided to bring it up within the industry. I knew a lot of people, so I'd say, "Have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in kids movies?" when I met a director, a producer, whatever. And they said, "Oh, but that's not true anymore."” PeopleIfsSaidCharacterKidsMotherIndustryMetsDirectorsDaughterMy FriendsFemaleDecidedAskingFeministProducersThey SaidFemale CharactersMother DaughterKids Movie Author:Geena Davis
“When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for a couple of months and then I decided that I was much more in the camp of people like, you know, President Johnson - trying to promote civil rights, voting rights, ending poverty.” PeopleKnowsTryingBelieveYoungPresidentPovertyRightsCollegeLike YouMonthsCoupleRepublicanDecidedCivil RightsVotingCampsJohnsonRight To VoteEnding PovertyOff To CollegePresident Johnson Author:Hillary Clinton
“Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material.” PeopleNeedsWritingI CanMaterialsDirectDecided Author:Brady Corbet
“I also think the more experienced you get as an actor, you start to hear the conversations about why people get cast and not cast, sometimes it's so arbitrary. They decided the moment you walked in the door. And there's nothing you could have done to sway them, even if you'd the greatest performance of all time.” PeopleIfsThinkingSometimesDoneMomentsActorsDoorsConversationDecidedPerformancesCastsAll TimeArbitrary Author:Gillian Jacobs
“In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will.” PeopleStillsDemocracyCitizensDecidedMajorityRussiaBelongingParliamentReferendumsCrimea Author:Vladimir Putin
“He (Pres. Bush) rightly decided that it was far better to return all Haitians than to encourage, deliberately or not, tens of thousands of people to take to the open ocean in unseaworthy, overcrowded boats.... When the Haitians sense the door has been cracked open, they will once again prepare their rag-tag armada and set sail for the land of plenty - America.” PeopleHas BeensAmericaDoorsLandReturnOceanDecidedImmigrationBoatPlentySailCrackedRagsTag Author:Robert Byrd
“I was sitting in this small coffee shop a couple days ago and I saw this old man sitting at a table across from me. He looked so lonely, so sad. I was too, but it suddenly occurred to me that some people go through their whole lives never being loved or loving as deeply as I love you. There's always going to be the chance that I could lose you in this lifetime. There's nothing any of us can do about the possibility of loss. But in that moment, I decided that I was more interested in focusing on the great privilege I've been given in having you at all. Ch. 32” PeopleMenWholeMomentsGivenCan DoLosesChanceLossSawsLove YouPossibilityCoupleSittingLonelyDecidedTablesLifetimePrivilegeCoffeeWhole LifeShopsThat MomentOld ManLoving LifeBeing LovedSo SadCoffee ShopSo Lonely Author:Mia Sheridan