Decided Quotes

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.

I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really dug playing to a lot of people, the band sounded great, and just being out there again, got me over my depression and so I decided to hop on board.

Yes, we were looking for a Faith spin-off, but then Faith backed down. Eliza got a really wonderful offer over on Fox in a show, and, for reasons I didn't talk to her about, she decided to go there, and everyone respects that.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

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

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular.

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

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.

When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.

I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

I've traveled around the world and made love with many satisfied women. So I decided to share my story.

In 1958, we decided to go to Australia. We were there for six months, and all the shows went well.

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.