Famous Quotes & Sayings

Novala Takemoto

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

Ezra Miller

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

Preity Zinta

Yes, you have to be brave enough to take steps that your heart is telling you to take. Because when I decided to go into cricket, not one person told me I was making the right move. At that time, nobody thought the IPL would become so big. I was nervous at that time, because suddenly I was in an uncomfortable spot.

Malcolm Gladwell

We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.

Dominika Cibulkova

I've always loved playing tennis. When I was 12, my parents decided that I should try to do it seriously. My father started to travel with me, and as a family, we tried to make it work.

Nick Woodman

I decided that I want to live in a big world. And since then, any time I'm confronted with a challenging situation, I go for it.

Jakaya Kikwete

We promise to respect people of all creeds: those who are Christians, Muslims as well as those who have decided not to follow any religion.

Al Groh

We preached all week for our guys to be prepared to go the long haul. We knew this game would be decided well into the game, late in the game. That helped see us through a tough start.

Todd Phillips

The worst thing you can do as a comedy director is be on set and think of something ridiculous, or an actor comes up to you with something ridiculous, and you say 'No, no that's too much.' Let's not worry if that's too much, let's shoot it, and then decide if that's too much when we see it.

Trevor Moore

I was very young, and I kind of decided I wanted to do comedy. My parents were musicians, so we traveled on a tour bus. You're in a different town every night; as a kid, you're trying to make friends fast. You try to be funny.

Tyler Blackburn

I have exes I'm friends with and exes I'm not friends with. It depends on what you decide together. I do think that sometimes trying to maintain that bond can be healthier than walking away.

Vanessa Ray

I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the things they did on that show.

Michael Vaughan

We want to be sure that if we decide to play with one spinner then Giles is feeling good about himself.

We want the students to be able to decide which to purchase and also save money.

Yuvraj Singh

When I was going through my chemotherapy, I realized not many people are willing to talk about cancer, even after getting fully cured. Celebrities and educated people are also very protective and private about it. I still haven't understood why. I decided to fight my battle out in the public.

Bob Schieffer

I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.

Bob Ainsworth

It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.

We still haven't made a solid determination on exactly what happened, and we decided to err on the side of safety and take the ride out.

We're evaluating our options and trying to decide if we can rebuild it ourselves, or find someone else who wants to do it. We've owned it for 15 years, and (putting the inn up for sale) was a personal decision that it was time for us to move on to something else.

Warren Rudman

We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes.

Ben Carson

I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

Ben Carson

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

Ben Affleck

My kids aren't celebrities. They never made that bargain. We were offered a lot of money to sell pictures of our kids when they were born. You'll notice there aren't any. I make no judgment about people who decide differently; a lot of them give the money to charity. For me, it was a matter of principle.

Chris Higgins

We were a little tired but it was a big week for us. When we looked at the schedule, we sat down as a team and decided we wanted to pick up as many points as we could because there's a lot riding on every game we play right now.

We don't know exactly what would happen after a 'no.' We wouldn't decide on that. It would be up to the EU.

Mike Richardson

We worked hard on that the other day in practice. We worked on a set squad to go out there and play hard defense until they turned it over or we decided it was time to foul.

We want to know what is going on, what is being discussed. After all, what is decided impacts our lives.

David Robertson

We'll see how it reacts in the (weekend) storm then decide on how we re-open it to two-way or one-way traffic.

There is a very tight race for No. 1 between ABC, Fox and CBS. You can't discount that. That's why they decided to go with original programming. This is about the competitive nature of our business.

Karl Rove

The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elements of the Tea Party decide to become third party advocates because it will split the conservative vote.

Tom Robbins

I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India.

Dennis Hastert

Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world.