Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benigno Aquino III

The focus of my administration is, if somebody decides to work abroad, then it has to be from choice as opposed to necessity.

Burt Shavitz

If I decide I want to go canoeing, I've got a canoe. If I want to take my dog with me, nobody tells me I can't do it. If I want to go skinny dipping and wash my body, I can take my clothes off.

Barbara Park

My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.

Gary Wright

I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.

Elmore Leonard

I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp magazines, like 'Dime Western' and '10 Story Western' that were still being published. The better ones paid two cents a word. And I thought, 'I like Westerns.'

Fred Allen

Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

Fiona Gubelmann

I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.

Clarence Thomas

My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.

Gina Rodriguez

I've specifically decided to say no to projects that weren't advancing Latinos, that weren't showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths.

Geoffrey Canada

The system decides you can't run schools in the summer.

Willie Mays

We knew we had to keep playing until the game was decided one way or the other. We played 10, 15 innings sometimes. The All-Star Game was important to us. We weren't worried about setting records. We were worried about winning.

We're trying to give people the information they need to decide their approach; we're not telling them what to do, we're not being prescriptive.

Alan Hansen

Playing for 14 years definitely took its toll mentally. I decided when I was playing my last season that when I retired from football I would never go back into it, and I've never regretted that decision.

Jean Alesi

I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.

John Madden

Some day we're gonna have interactive television where you can pick the shot that you want. You can watch defense, or you can watch the end-zone shot, or you can watch an isolated shot of Terance Mathis or whoever you want to. Because right now, the only thing that you watch is what the producer or director decides to show you.

J. G. Ballard

I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.

I have a problem with fashion magazines sometimes - they seem to have these dogmas or uniforms. 'This is the way you must look; this is this season's must-have.' I really resent the phrase 'must-have.' I prefer to decide for myself what I think is beautiful or fashionable.

Dan Fogelberg

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

Gary Ross

Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence.

Daryl Hall

In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.

Barbara Lynn

You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war

There is room (for investment in another bank), and we will have to decide going forward what to do in this regard.

There is plenty of good in there. But it's been quite watered down, and many things have been left to be decided later.

The parliament wants the member states themselves to decide whether sunlight is a risk or not. That's totally unacceptable for the Commission.

The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new. Most successful businessmen are in that role. 'No' is never perceived as the end of the line. 'No' just means picking a new avenue.

Richard Myers

There are a lot of ways to go before you get to the point where you ... decide you want to give active-duty forces law enforcement authority,

Jeff Smith

When you get two top-notch teams in here playing like that, to end up having the game being decided like that is a tragedy.

DeLoss Dodds

We've got to decide what we're going to do, so they can decide.

When did you decide you didn't want any more publicity? I'm looking for a date.

Paul Rusesabagina

We sat down in the ruins and we cried. The trip opened my eyes, it was very influential, ... Since then I've decided never to fight with a gun but with my mouth.

We knew that we had to play hard and had to turn it up and at that point, we decided we got to put up a fight. We can't just relax and let them run all over us.