Decided Quotes · Page 39

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell…

— E. O. Wilson

I've been obsessed with making movies since I was 15. I watched a lot of movies when I was young, and I…

— Quentin Dupieux

My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle…

— Vik Muniz

When [Vladimir] Putin, a former lieutenant-colonel in the KGB, became Russia's president on December 31, 1999 - eight years after the failed…

— Garry Kasparov

I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would…

— Ray Bradbury

I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I…

— Paul Scofield

Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like…

— Gore Vidal

And then, going to high school, I saw how popular girls had to behave to get the boys. I knew I couldn't…

— Madonna Ciccone

I'd done all the things I thought a person had to do in order to be successful and fulfilled, like getting a…

— Robin S. Sharma

I moved to Dallas in 1975 and stayed there until 1980. That's when I decided it was time to move to L.A.

— Larry Drake

Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided…

— Serena Williams

I decided to do philosophy at university, with a view to becoming a professional philosopher. Being a rather unstable character, at some…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

I felt I had nothing more to say. Everything would have had to be a replay of the previous two or three…

— Richard Pinhas

I decided to be a filmmaker between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse. Before I left for the summer of 1977,…

— Spike Lee

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to…

— Sarah Polley

Now I'm at a point where I decided I'm going to be in the studio for a while, at least until I…

— Neil Young

I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star; are they a troll? Are they someone…

— Anna Quindlen

When Garcia died, and I decided not to play, I came out here.

— Bill Kreutzmann

People at civil-liberties organizations say it's a sea change, and that it's very clear judges have begun to question more critically assertions…

— Edward Snowden

I was in college, I thought I was going to be a lawyer, I met this girl named Laura who was the…

— Kurt Fuller

I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star.

— Peter Sculthorpe

I was already in a groove and decided to initially write down everything, as I would in an actual diary, and then…

— Andy Cohen

In 2008, I just decided that there will come a time when I am dead and gone, and I only have a…

— Preity Zinta

Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study…

— William Butler Yeats

He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson