Decided Quotes - page 2

I was 45 years old when I decided to learn how to surf. (Brian Grazer)
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. View quote
Cornelia Funke
I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules. View quote
Joan Jett
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much. View quote
Gertrude B. Elion
I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy. View quote
Barry White
When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea. View quote
Constance Baker Motley
I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting. View quote
Evan Dando
The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track. View quote
Edwin Moses
Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept. View quote
Gil Gerard
But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way. (Herbie Mann)
When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now. View quote
Herbie Mann
I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy. View quote
Norma McCorvey
I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business. View quote
Orville Redenbacher
What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt. View quote
Tom Allen
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time. View quote
Zoltan Kodaly
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. View quote
Kirk Douglas
Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of. View quote
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States. View quote
John Adams
The idea of creating a national bank I do not concur in, because it seems now decided that Congress has not that power (although I sincerely wish they had it exclusively), and because I think there is already a vast redundancy rather than a scarcity of paper medium. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Both of us had decided, quite independently of each other, that the central problem in molecular biology was the chemical structure of the gene. (Francis Crick)
My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and emotional response - for letters, to which I had none. It was because of this that I decided not to continue math at Advanced level, but chose to study history, French and German instead. View quote
Daniel Tammet
I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too. View quote
Elizabeth Berkley
When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew