Decided Quotes

When I was a 21-year-old intern at CBS, I was told I had crossed eyes and shouldn't try to be on air. That's when I decided I was going to be behind the scenes.

I did not believe in the war. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. And I got to the war, and saw the Germans, and I changed my mind. I decided we were right going into World War II.

You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today.

With a polite smile, I decided she was insane.

I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.

I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star; are they a troll? Are they someone who hates my politics and so has decided to do that?

I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was what I wanted to do.

It's the most important decision I've had to make since 1978 when I decided to get abikini wax. [On his running for California Governor]

I didn't really have any aspirations to do TV when I first decided to be an actor.

I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.

I've just decided that I have to continue to live my life and do what I do. Hopefully, people love me because of who I am, not who I pretend to be.

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.

There are places and moments in America where this nation’s destiny has been decided...Selma is such a place.

There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq, until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq.

When Michelle and I decided that I would run for President, it was because of a shared belief in the power of community and connection, a commitment to the idea that we are our brothers' keepers.

I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.

As president, I decided that a strong, confident America could advance our national security by engaging directly with the Iranian government. We've seen the results.

I decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I've relaxed enormously since then. I'm the one who gets to say that, and not someone else.

I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.

African Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

Aim at perfection and nothing less. Need the best. Deserve the best. Those who say it's not possible are the people who decided to settle.

People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I've never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn't me at all.

When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job.

Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don't have to be very smart.

If something boils up under stress later, I remind myself to breathe and focus back to how I decided my day was going to go. It's simple but it works.

I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn't want to be an academic.

I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn't active enough for me.

Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'.

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

Pat Robertson had decided that global warming was real and we need to do something about it struck me as powerful evidence that the Holy Spirit is hard at work in this question.

When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio]."

I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.

In my Corgan brain, I've decided it's almost as simple as 'All you need is love.' Almost.

We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in the band that I was starting.

Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.

I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself

I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California because they sent me a glossy brochure.

Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material.

Jason decided not to add that the best way to get him to focus on something was to tell him not to think about it.

Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you've decided to have me disposed of?

I have recently decided that there is no place in my head or my heart for fear anymore.

I was three years old. I was messing with my grandparents' dog in Las Vegas, and he decided to pick me up by my head and run around the backyard with me.

I’ve decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully – in about 200 years’ time.

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

You can just imagine the restrictions of shooting in a prison, but I just decided I'm going to embrace those restrictions sometimes when you don't have many choices you can make the best choices.