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“When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.”

Way Years Long Stories Wanted Mother Desire Black White Changed Pages Hundred Decided Eight Screens Pounds Short Story Black And White Never Change Goats Paragraph Laptops

Author:Tea Obreht

“My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead characters was named Lark. She decided then she would name me and she stuck to it, and here I am.”

Years Character Mother Names Forget Saws Decided Stuck Here I Am Larks Lead Characters

Author:Lark Voorhies

“I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.”

Years Six Decided Hobbies

Author:Jenni Rivera

“I thought long and hard about my future this past year and during the offseason, and I've decided 2015 will be the last time I compete for a championship.”

Years Long Hard Lasts Past Decided Championship Last Time My Future Offseason

Author:Jeff Gordon

“I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.”

Years Play Kids Games Team Streets College Son Picks Decided Let Me Parks My Son Hockey Backup Lacrosse Goalies Hockey Team Riverside

Author:John Katzman

“You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that—”

People Years My Own Flower Amount One Day Ordinary Years Ago Decided I Realized Bees Own Business Spelling Part Time Adept Bonnets Minding My Own Business

Book:The phantom tollbooth

Source: The phantom tollbooth

“I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.”

Years Firsts Two Done Government Wanted Five Republican First Time Decided Majority Forty Transparent Things Done Good Years Government Shutdown Bad Years

Author:William J. Clinton

“I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.”

Years Six Decided Tables Rate Lowest Six Year Olds

Author:Warren Buffett

“The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.”

Thinking Writing Years Morning Special Produce Painting Fool Decided Experience Tricks Articles Masterpiece Solidity

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), .. The students that came to that class had children. And over a period of a few years, they decided they wanted a nursery school, a play group (to watch over their children while they were studying). So in one of the garages that was near where we were having the classes, we established a play group area and the students volunteered to supervise. That eventually led to building a state-licensed nursery school, which was approved by the California department of social welfare.”

“I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.”

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Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.”

Years Natural Study Years Ago Decided Definitions Realising Surrealism Affinity

Author:Trevor Dunn

“I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.”

Years Wanted Decided Seven Physicians Seven Years

Author:Samuel Wilson

“Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.”

“As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.”

Years Two Matter Facts School Father Study Becoming High School Decided Two Years Priests Anticipation Matter Of Fact Seminary After High School

Author:Bob Gunton

“The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The questions which for years were in dispute between the State and General Government, and which unhappily were not decided by the dictates of reason, but referred to the decision of war, having been decided against us, it is the part of wisdom to acquiesce in the result, and of candor to recognize the fact.”

Years War States Reason Facts Government Decision Results Decided Disputes Candor

Author:Robert E. Lee

“In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged musicians who had clearly been on tour for decades, and they all looked haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I vowed to myself that I would never be that person. Flash forward 20 years and I found myself in Heathrow looking haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I decided I would rather spend my time staying home working on music and making dinner with friends, instead of spending six months in a hotel in a state of depressing suspended adolescence.”

“I'm a comedian, and I decided I wanted to be a comedian when I was eight years old watching old Saturday Night Live episodes. I never decided to be a rapper because I'm not a rapper.”

Years Wanted Night Decided Eight Comedian Rapper Episodes Saturday Saturday Night Saturday Night Live

Author:Andy Samberg

“In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him. Man Ray hated not working, though. He would come into my studio, see me drawing or working on photographs, and just slump down at my feet with a big sigh. Fortunately for both of us the year ended. Polaroid had invented a new camera, the twenty-by-twenty-four, and I was invited to Cambridge, Mass., to experiment with it. Naturally, I took Man Ray and we were working again.”

Men Want Years Self Bigs Four Feet Discipline Mass Decided Twenties Cameras Photograph Studios Drawing Experiments Hated Rely Rays Self Discipline Sigh Invited Cambridge Slumps Polaroids

Author:William Wegman

“I decided to be a filmmaker between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse. Before I left for the summer of 1977, my advisor told me I really had to declare a major when I came back, because I'd used all my electives in my first two years. I went back to New York and I couldn't find a job. There were none to be had. And that previous Christmas someone gave me a Super-8 camera, so I just started to shoot stuff.”

Years Firsts Two Jobs Used Left Stuff New York Summer Majors Decided Cameras Filmmaker Two Years Juniors Advisors Sophomore Junior Year

Author:Spike Lee

“After careful consideration, we have decided that for our next fiscal year, we'll issue guidance on comparable store used unit sales and on earnings per share only for the full fiscal year. We will no longer issue quarterly guidance. This decision reflects our continuing focus on longer-term store, sales, and earnings growth and on return on invested capital, and our recognition that the performance in shorter-term periods can be more volatile than over the longer term. As we report our quarterly results, we plan to comment on how our performance is tracking against our annual guidance.”

“I decided I don't want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I'd like to be reading bedtime stories to my children for another two or three years.”

Want Years Children Two Stories Jobs Three Reading Decided My Children Three Years Bedtime Bedtime Stories

Author:Yvette Cooper

“There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided to begin four hundred years of wars, and then several thousand pages devoted to the routes, battles and other events which make up the "history" of the Crusades.”

Years War Three Four Events Battle Thousand Pages Hundred Decided Instance Devoted Volume Routes Describing Participants Crusades

Book:The New Psychohistory

Source: The New Psychohistory

“In recent years, you've probably read the articles about major recording artists who have decided to practically give their music away, for this promotion or that exclusive deal. My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet...is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.”

Giving Years Young Artist Girl Asks Realizing Deals Industry Majors Decided Articles Promotion Exclusive Music Industry Hope For The Future

Author:Taylor Swift

“Unfortunately, once I did learn to smoke, I couldn't stop. I escalated to two packs a day very quickly, and stayed that way for about ten years. When I decided to stop, I adopted the method that my father had used when he quit. He would carry a cigarette in his shirt pocket, and every time he felt like smoking, he would pull out the cigarette and confront it: "Who stronger? You? Me?" Always the answer was the same: "I stronger." Back the cigarette would go, until the next craving. It worked for him, and it worked for me.”

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Author:Kirk Douglas

“The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.”

Years Problem Study Special Decided Unions Prepared Following Conferences

Author:Ludwig Quidde

“I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.”

“Well, you have to understand where we came from. We are not here because we decided 10 years ago that we were going to be x-size company, and, oh, yeah, Jackson would be a good headquarters. We work here in Mississippi because we started here, and we are certainly happy here. Those of us working out of Jackson intend to continue working out of Jackson.”

Years Wells Would Be Company Economy Years Ago Decided Yeah Size Work Out Mississippi Headquarters Where We Came

Author:Bernard Ebbers

“When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay.”

Way Giving Years Age Felt Parent Born Cry Arms Giving Up Decided Asking Suicide Legs Graves Commit Worried My Future Arms And Legs Asking Why Born This Way Loving Parents

Author:Nick Vujicic

“Everybody takes breaks, and I decided to take mine. I wanted a chance to wake up at two in the afternoon and not be a subject of entertainment. I wanted to be a human being. At certain times and certain years, I felt like the Energizer bunny. That gets old very quickly.”

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Author:Raven-Symone

“I decided it would be better to be a bird. Birds are very busy at one period each year caring for babies, but this lasts only a few weeks with many of them, and then their babies are grown and gone. Best of all, they leave their houses forever and take to camping for the rest of the year. No wonder they are happy.”

Years Would Be Lasts House Wonder Gone Forever Week Baby Periods Bird Decided Busy Caring Camping

Book:Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a Bird Lover

Source: Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a Bird Lover

“I went to a public high school with a magnet program for law and psychology. But right before my junior year, I decided that I wanted to leave and become an actress, so I graduated early and moved out to L.A.”

Years Wanted School Law Psychology High School Program Decided Moved Actresses Juniors Magnet Junior Year

Author:Ashley Greene

“After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May 93.”

Years May My Own Streets Six Decided Own Business

Author:Daniel Boulud

“My senior year of high school, I was voted Wittiest. So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.”

Ifs Writing Trying Years Enough Hands School High School Decided Witty If I Could Senior Senior Year Wittiest Writing Humor

Author:Barbara Park

“I was 45 years old when I decided to learn how to surf.”

Years Decided Surf

Author:Brian Grazer

“You can't just be a wimp and then a year and a half or two years later decide to not be a wimp anymore. Because people will always treat you like a wimp once they have decided that's what you are. You have to be strong and tough and intelligent and smart and kind of plan out what you're going to say and know who you are. So that people will get that right away. Because then they're always going to be great to you. And they're always going to treat you with respect.”

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Author:Stevie Nicks

“The people that can't sing anymore that had great voices are the people that went away for five years and then just decided to come back. And you just can't make a comeback. Comebacks are no good. You have to just keep singing. Or keep dancing.”

People Years Voice Five Singing Decided Dancing Five Years Comeback Great Voice

Author:Stevie Nicks

“I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.”

Years Wanted School Late Intellectual Decided Medical Historian Senior Juniors Harvard Medical School Senior Year

Author:Eric Kandel

“It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.”

Writing Years Book Wanted Fiction Decided Seven Seven Years

Author:Cynthia Kadohata

“It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.”

People Years States United United States Taken Stage Hundred Decided Slavery Plenty Abolition Abolition Of Slavery

Author:C. L. R. James

“I did my first triathlon when I was 11-years-old and it was just another new sport to try. I got better at it and decided to take it a bit more seriously.”

Trying Years Firsts Bits Sports Decided Triathlon

Author:Alistair Brownlee

“The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.”

People Ifs Years Age Born Generations Baby Decided Crush Birthday New Generation 60th Birthday Babies Being Born

Author:Tom Hanks

“It's kind of interesting to experience that kind of a ride after well, essentially so many years of enjoying a career based on failures and then suddenly something clicks. The weird thing is, I never changed a thing. The process is still the process as it ever was. The fact that people decided to go and see a movie that I was in was probably the most shocking thing that I've ever been through.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

“Some people say you can get hepatitis if you do coke with ones because they've been handled so much. But I tested that theory out for about a year, and I decided it's bullshit.”

People Ifs Years Theory Decided Bullshit Tested Coke Hepatitis

Author:The Rev

“Moments ago, the U.S. Senate decided to do the unthinkable about gun violence - nothing at all. Over two years ago, when I was shot point-blank in the head, the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. Four months ago, 20 first-graders lost their lives in a brutal attack on their school, and the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. It's clear to me that if members of the U.S. Senate refuse to change the laws to reduce gun violence, then we need to change the members of the U.S. Senate.”

“I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.”

Ifs Years Would Be Ten Ordinary Decided Trade Flying Flight If I Could Aviation Worthwhile Crash Ordinary Life Great Aviation Life Time Aviator

Book:The Spirit of St. Louis

Source: The Spirit of St. Louis

“I decided to take two years between finishing undergraduate and beginning medical school to devote fully to medical research. I knew that I wanted to go to medical school during undergraduate, but I was also eager to get a significant amount of research experience.”

Years Two Wanted School Amount Research Decided Medical Significant Two Years Finishing Medical School Undergraduate Medical Research

Author:Eva Vertes

“Be persistent. Establishing yourself in this field could easily take years. Rarely will any composer get that one "big break." More often, success is built on hundreds - or thousands - of very small breaks. When I decided that I was definitely going to pursue a career as a film composer, I decided I was going to beat my head against that particular wall until something broke.”

Years Bigs Film Careers Break Fields Particular Wall Beats Built Decided Pursue Broke Composer Persistent Film Composers

Author:John Keltonic

“We have to find areas in our lives that we feel most uncomfortable about and want to change. I decided to push myself because it allowed me to give back. I have a scholarship program. When I found out the average age of a homeless person is 9½ years old, I said there must be something that I can do. Now, I am the spokesman for the National Coalition for the Homeless.”

Want Giving Feels Years Persons Said I Can Age Found Can Do Our Lives Areas Program Decided Average Uncomfortable Homeless Giving Back Scholarship Coalitions

Author:Farrah Gray

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