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"I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The director just sort of found me and put me in a film, so the decision was really made for me."
"Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that we can at any tine exact with confidence; but the celebration of those which we only feign, or desire without any vigorous endeavours to attain them, is received as a confession of sovereignty over regions never conquered, as a favourable decision of disputable claims, and is more welcome as more gratuitous."
"Should it be prohibited for private entities such as a church, bed and breakfast or retirement neighborhood that doesn't want noisy children? Absolutely not."
"In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify."
"The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy."
"We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought..."
"Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent."
"I guess I'm interested in people and society and what we do collectively in the realm of decisions that shape our world. You know, at least on a human level."
"A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision."
"The success of a leader will rise or fall on the decisions that he or she makes about the people around him or her."
"If you have a weakness for furry slippers or something, you might end up with that kind of advertising. It's a very complicated algorithmic decision. There's no one dude who's deciding what ads are going with things, and it's very individualized also. And that's the idea of collecting information is that in theory, you're showing people things that they should want to see or for which they are a good target. So, no, there's no master person."
"Audiences crave something they've never seen before. That's what they want. They want to be dazzled. They want to go in either to have their expectations blown out of the water, or have no expectations and are dazzled by the decisions that we filmmakers made."
"Decisions decide destiny, there is no action without decision"
"Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life."
"When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple."
"Decision equals destiny."
"One decision can change your life forever."
"Probably the most pervasive false belief most of us harbor is the fallacy that only some superhuman act would have the power to turn our problems around. Nothing could be further from the truth. Life is cumulative. Whatever results we're experiencing in our lives are the accumulation of a host of small decisions we've made as individuals, as a family, as a community, as a society, and as a species."
"Decision is the ultimate power. Decisions shape destiny."
"Remember, it's not conditions but decisions that determine our lives."
