Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.
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.
I approach every part I’m asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn’t get it, or if he does?
It’s very difficult to decide. And I’m very open to proposals.
If we all give our power to one person, that’s what the world will be. If we all decide to make the world a beautiful place, it’ll be a beautiful place.
I believe in monogamy if that’s what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.
On grass, it can be the small things that decide a match.
The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all.
There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney.
I totally reject and have rejected throughout my entire career the proposition that the end justifies the means or that a judge should decide cases based on a desire to reach a certain outcome.
I think that a lot of women that know they’re going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don’t understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.
When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
I’ve considered going to lightweight. As soon as my trainer decides that I can go up, then I will.
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Trump’s attacks against the judiciary reflect his view that only he should be able to decide what he can and cannot do.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Once I decide I want to do something, I just work really hard and I do it, and I just know it’s going to work. I think really positively.
We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
It’s kind of a crazy thing to decide that you’re going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn’t suit everybody.
Now, we can’t stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time – if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.
What one decides to do in crisis depends on one’s philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn’t any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.
David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.
Men and women are custodians of this society, and we both decide what’s going to happen for our future. I feel that very, very strongly.
Every performance has provided a learning experience, and as we go, we keep fine-tuning the shows. If we decide to do a tour, we rehearse until we perfect. One thing that I do prior to every show is that we huddle the band and pray. We thank more than we ask.
We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.
If I decide to be an idiot, then I’ll be an idiot on my own accord.
I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.
We all need to decide what makes it safe and secure on the Internet. It can’t be anybody else’s decision. We have to have a voice.
We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don’t decide for you.
There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There’s nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.
You look at it as a privilege. So you really decide that you’re going to put the time in and work really hard to get to the point where you’re ready.
No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.
We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.
When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can’t afford, they are condemning good people to death.
I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.
You don’t just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at ‘SNL’ is writing to go after someone.
To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin… and I’ve always known where it will end.
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
Prisons are big businesses, which I hadn’t realized. A lot of these name brand labels that we wear – they’re using prison labor and exploiting prisoners, who live in harsh conditions. People need to know about this kind of sweatshop labor, so they can decide what to spend their money on.
When we look at the investment decisions into the city of Compton, the small business community and global corporations and retailers and all of those types of services that decide to come into the community to serve it, they look at the perception, how does the brand work with the local community.
You have to decide if you’re going to wilt like a daisy or if you’re just going to go forward and live the life that you’ve been granted.
Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people’s behavior… isn’t going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn’t matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.
It’s all about whatever enriches you. If you decide to go the domestic route and get married and all those things, it makes you a better actor.
I was termed ‘choosy’ because when an actor decides to go against the wind and takes on only non-formula films, he is not left with much choice.
Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway.
Films don’t decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.
You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
I would like to help people have honest and constructive conversations about energy. We need to understand how much energy our modern lifestyles use, decide how much energy we would like to use in the future, and choose where we will get that energy from.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
The crucial legacy of the personal computer is that anyone can write code for it and give or sell that code to you – and the vendors of the PC and its operating system have no more to say about it than your phone company does about which answering machine you decide to buy.
Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn’t want to retire. But once you decide it’s time to move on then you have to stick with it.
