#deciding

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#away #become #being #come #decide

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#deciding #ninety #percent #politics #whom

Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows. ↗

— Bill Copeland

#daytime #deciding #home #retire #shows

Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists. ↗

— Todd Tiahrt

#believe #carry #choosing #citizens #conflict

Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex? ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#deciding #divorced #gay #gay marriage #get

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school. ↗

— Edward Norton

#going #having #i #i remember #kid

I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#affiliates #angry #attack #deciding #dissent

Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease. ↗

— Richard Serra

#content #deciding #disease #equates #got

It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#find #frequency #i #myself #unwelcome

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#deciding #deter #factor #finances #going