#decide

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. ↗

— Maya Lin

#architecture #art #aware #become #began

The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#against #cannot #decide #forced #join

If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis. ↗

— Eric Liu

#barack #barack obama #call #carried #certainly

There's no amount of money that would make me decide something for a career. ↗

— Eva Longoria

#career #decide #make #me #money

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#conflict #decide #every #evil #falsehood

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#before #better #choose #decide #ever

I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#decided #feel #hoping #i #i can

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#act #already #decide #decided #decision

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it. ↗

— William H. Macy

#decide #i #like #me #pay

When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#decided #done #everything #far #get