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Related In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at ... KATHLEEN HANNA The worst storyline I've ever been involved in I wasn't involved in, because I was clever en... ERIKA SLEZAK 'Garbage Time' was the name I came up with. Midnight was my decision. Were they the right de... KATIE NOLAN The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign. JOHN O'DONOHUE Last year, the surgery was a tough decision, but I had to make a decision based on my career. It was... BRIAN JORDAN The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since... HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though... SUSAN WOJCICKI Elections came up, and it was a decision that was made. GOLDIE CHANEY I had a second trimester abortion. I was pregnant with a much-wanted child who was diagnosed with a ... AYELET WALDMAN Going to rehab was the best decision I ever made. LARA STONE The decision was made, and I don't feel I was adequately represented. When people start to feel it i... KAREN MORRIS It was a tough decision, one I didn't really want to make. But I felt it was best for my family. I m... PETER GARZA If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 ho... TAMALA JONES The worst decision, hands down, was wearing bright yellow when I was 9 months pregnant. I looked lik... SAFRA A. CATZ That was a great read by Adam. He made the right decision and found Zach at just the right time. I f... BRUCE BARNES Was I a perfect gastric-bypass patient? Yes. Was I a perfect gastric-bypass pregnant woman? No. I ma... CARNIE WILSON I'm not in it to get to anybody. I think it was a poor decision, but the decision has been made, and... BOB METZLER I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at he... ELVIS PRESLEY I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was... ALAN GREENSPAN By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER I was pregnant when I did the first shot of Proof, and I started to show by the end. It was very imp... GWYNETH PALTROW When it came down to it and the life-or-death decision had to be made, then it was made by you, beca... TERRY PRATCHETT My wife and I had made a decision that when our first child arrived I would retire, but with Joshua ... GARY KIRSTEN I was raised - my mom and dad were dairy farmers. Once you've made a decision to plant a crop fo... ROY BLUNT At 11 years old, I made a very definitive decision, and my decision was that I wanted to be happy. A... GOLDIE HAWN I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to ha... BETTY WHITE During the time of the draft and all the workouts, it was a little hectic. It came to our family a l... PEDRO ALVAREZ Once I made the decision to play, and it was my decision, I was going to do it. You go out there and... LAUREN JACKSON Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking bo... KARAN JOHAR The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was ... DANIEL BRYAN I've always wanted to be a coach; I never wanted to play basketball professionally. I happened to ge... RICK BRUNSON The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' ... RON WHITE I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up ... MARIO LEMIEUX When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don'... RENEE OLSTEAD Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It wa... CORMAC MCCARTHY I started playing Madden back in 1993 because that was the first year I actually made it into the ga... MICHAEL STRAHAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I really thought when I was pregnant with my first that it wouldn't affect my work at all; it wo... JENNIFER GARNER The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision. CAITRIONA BALFE I've had such a hard time with dyslexia my whole life. When I was a child, I didn't learn to... CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous fo... EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE I've always been a big PlayStation fan. Even when the Xbox first came out, I stuck with the Play... REGGIE BUSH Chihuly wanted to open the exhibition in August, but we politely explained that was not a good idea ... MARK MAUNDER I did research when I was pregnant with my first daughter and was horrified by the chemicals in prod... JESSICA ALBA When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I k... YOKO ONO I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The... ALFRED MOLINA I've always had a booty even when I was a baby, and when I was in high school and was skinny, I ... COCO AUSTIN I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child. LORETTA LYNN I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's off... HAMDI ULUKAYA I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girli... NATASHA HENSTRIDGE I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days an... KARA DIOGUARDI I know a lot of people didn't understand why I came back, and people are still going to say it w... COBI JONES The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all... PAULY SHORE I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it... TED DEUTCH I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career he... RON SANTO I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone i... SALMA HAYEK People ask me about the decision to transition from fashion to 'Rookie' magazine. But it was... TAVI GEVINSON My dad made these dough balls and covered them up with a cloth in front of a gas fire, which was stu... PAUL HOLLYWOOD I had a good feeling I'd do well here, and we just made the right decision with the set up when we n... ALEX YOONG This was pretty exciting to me to get into the top-eight. I knew I needed to put up a strong perform... MICHELLE LANDRY From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid o... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It wasn't a tough decision. I was ready for the NFL, ... My family was OK with it. JOSH BULLOCKS That was my first introduction to BMWs in 1978, when my friend bought it for me as a surprise with m... DAN HILL When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I... DAVID FRIEDMAN It was a decision that was certainly not easy and a decision that I hope the people who have support... OMAR JACOBS When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, a... ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN When I was a child, I probably should have been medicated about my obsession with The Spice Girls. I... BLAKE LIVELY It was a gutsy move. I wasn't sending her by any means, but I had no problem with it. We needed some... KEITH KRAMME The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When ... SNOOP DOGG It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside t... BOBBY CHARLTON When I made the decision to live permanent in the States, ... it was just a natural progression that... PETER MAYHEW But it's always a player's decision and I kept telling her I didn't want to quit even though I was p... AKIKO MORIGAMI I've never categorically been a banker. I had two internships while I was at university. The dec... DRUMMOND MONEY-COUTTS I loved my second trimester! I didn't feel sick anymore and had more energy. My bloated belly tu... MARISA MILLER The best gift I've ever gotten... My grandpa gave me a Polaroid camera when I was younger. It wa... CAMREN BICONDOVA Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, a... NATALIA VODIANOVA When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contac... J. M. G. LE CLEZIO Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has com... OPRAH WINFREY This was a business decision. It had nothing to do with being a fan and I really had to stop when th... FORREST LUCAS The bottom line is that it was a legal decision and it was made by (Bradshaw). To say anyone else ma... ERIC HOLLAND No, she is right up there with the best I've worked with. I was very impressed with her, I reall... ALBERT FINNEY Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense ... IAN DUNBAR It was my idea to come to America. It was a tough decision. I had to give up my friends and family, ... CAMILLE MOUTE Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the pe... CAROLYN MURPHY They put in my head that it would make me better. It was the best decision I made career-wise. JASON JARAMILLO I came here when I was 20. I came to go to school, but I ended up working for Halston as an assistan... NAEEM KHAN They were the first ones to offer me a contract. I just wanted to hear from other teams. It was my d... FELIX HERNANDEZ The first time I got pregnant, I was a young girl - I was 17 years old. Although I knew right away t... PAULA GARCES I really wanted to get this decision out of the way first. I'm going to leave it alone until the end... JARED MITCHELL This is a great opportunity to join a company with a strong commitment to boxing. It was one of the ... LEON MARGULES And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it? ... No Face... a pe... DEYTH BANGER I talked to my mom a lot about it and she felt like it was the right time and I felt like it is the ... LAURENCE MARONEY It was a heartbreaking decision but the way I felt on Saturday I knew I'd made the right choice, DANNY WILLIAMS When I was a small child, I partially learned to read with comics, in particular with 'Scamp,... JAMES GUNN I made a decision on faith that Wayne County was going to get this in place. FRED OWEN When I came up with the character of Wicket for 'Return Of The Jedi', which was my first fil... WARWICK DAVIS I was going to give them a first, ... Obviously, I didn't start at a first, but I was going to give ... RON WOLF How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS
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SUSAN RABIN It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. SUSAN SONTAG In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized,... SUSAN SONTAG The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and... SUSAN SONTAG Taste has no system and no proofs. SUSAN SONTAG The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture... SUSAN SONTAG One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.... SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoo... SUSAN ERTZ To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do. SUSAN BLOW Feel the fear and do it anyway. SUSAN JEFFERS What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women... SUSAN SONTAG We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally. SUSAN CAIN The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking o... SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. SUSAN ERTZ Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wr... SUSAN RICE Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly... SUSAN MINOT If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sur... SUSAN RICE Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I ... SUSAN ORLEAN I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kind... SUSAN SONTAG Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide som... SUSAN LIEBERMAN I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because... SUSAN WIGGS Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some oth... SUSAN ESTRICH You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special th... SUSAN EGAN Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of cou... SUSAN GEORGE Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. SUSAN SONTAG The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You... SUSAN STRAIGHT The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec... SUSAN SONTAG I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human bei... SUSAN HOWATCH Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuali... SUSAN ESTRICH I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell... SUSAN ORLEAN The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. SUSAN SONTAG To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability.... SUSAN SONTAG As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people t... SUSAN SONTAG Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. SUSAN SONTAG