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If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology will be used. They need to be among those deciding whether it will be the great leveler or simply serve to worsen social divisions.
Anita Borg / Computer Scientist
Meaningful
Among
Deciding
Simply
Determining
Divisions
Ensure
Leveler
Serve
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Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.
James Surowiecki / Journalist
Baseball
Free Market
Including
Mechanism
Player
Soccer
Baseball Players
Deciding
Economies
Market
Salaries
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One year, my good deed started with deciding to give all my friends makeup from a cruelty-free cosmetics line that I love. I did this with the hope that they would love it as much as I do and end up switching their makeup over to that cruelty-free line forever.
Jenna Morasca / Actress
Cosmetics
Makeup
Switching
Love Hope Good
All My Friends
Deciding
Good Deed
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I don't get tons of scripts to be looking at and deciding on in terms of feature films; the industry has changed. Fortunately, with television and streaming and original series online, there's this whole new thing that has opened up, which I think is fantastic.
Joan Allen / Film Actress
Changed
Fantastic
Online
Scripts
Series
Streaming
Television
Original
Deciding
Feature
Feature Films
Fortunately
New Thing
Opened
Terms
Tons
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Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.
Travis Bradberry /
Confidence
Ability
Arms
Being Smart
Challenges
Common
Common Sense
Easy
Growth
Handle
Mindset
Open Arms
Smart
Welcome
Being
Does
Open
Deciding
How
Factor
Having
Inspires
Sense
Setbacks
Suggest
While
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It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools.
Shawn Fanning / Programmer
Approach
Concrete
Implementing
Solutions
Announcement
Deciding
Released
Schools
Shut
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As it turns out, one of the biggest choices we have doing the show is deciding the tangents we are allowed to take, the stuff that we see along the way. We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Excuse
Deciding
Explore
Just Kind
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Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.
Jose Padilha / Film Director
Capable
Objectivity
People
Possibility
Principles
Checking
Deciding
Different People
Empirical
Observations
Principle
Theories
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A big part of directing animation is deciding what you really want to do and making sure it's about something. My favorite thing about animation is the storytelling. You can really dig into the story and spend time with the writers. The writers don't just write and leave.
Mike Mitchell /
Animation
Storytelling
Big Part
Deciding
Dig
Directing
Favorite Thing
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
War
Believe
Citizens
Conflict
Trying
Carry
Choosing
Deciding
Task
Terrorists
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When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.
Taylor Swift / Singer-Songwriter
Able
Decision
Management
Life Future Me
Deciding
Fulfill
Obligations
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The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as the focus for the book, I went to Google and searched for unsolved murders in Victorian London, and they basically popped out at me about halfway down the first results page.
Sarah Pinborough /
Halfway
Lap
Thames
Victorian
Deciding
Page
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Working in MTV's development team, my days would consist of pitches and deciding which concepts we wanted to buy. We would then develop those into a pilot. Very few ended up making it to a full series, but if they did, I would manage the project alongside the show's creators.
Julia Hartz /
Concepts
Manage
Mtv
Alongside
Consist
Creators
Deciding
Pilot
Pitches
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Death is important for a couple reasons. The first is that death creates scarcity in our life, which therefore gives our decisions meaning and value. From a practical point of view, it therefore makes sense that we keep our own deaths in mind when deciding how to use our time.
Mark Manson /
Death
Couple
Important
Mind
Our Time
Point Of View
Scarcity
Use
Life Time Death
Life Time Mind
Decisions
Own
Life Death Time
First
Creates
Deaths
Deciding
How
Gives
Makes
Meaning
Point
Practical
Reasons
Sense
View
Therefore
Value
Which
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I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life. When they're old and they're 80 and they have their show in Vegas, they're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life.
Benny Blanco /
Vegas
Deciding
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If the federal government is so concerned with why people are deciding against having kids, maybe they should consider how little support and protection the middle class gets when it comes to being parents. Paid leave would be a good start, and increasing wages would also help.
Ana Kasparian /
Federal Government
Middle Class
Protection
Wages
Deciding
Increasing
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In deciding among theological views, one should be something of a consequentialist: the choice of one theological position over another should be, if not actually determined, at least heavily conditioned by the fact that it implies a better ethical outcome than the alternatives.
David Novak /
Alternatives
Determined
Ethical
Theological
Views
Conditioned
Deciding
Implies
Outcome
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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 / Radio Host
Angry
Dissent
Heart
Silence
Thinking
Voice
Affiliates
Useful
Attack
Deciding
Group
Special Interest
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
Eddie Marsan / Actor
Cambridge
Handsome
Longevity
Massive
Movie Star
Oxford
Stars
Thinking
Big Thing
Deciding
Reliable
Young Guy
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When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.
Carl Hiaasen / Journalist
Chapter
Deciding
Page
Random
Real Deal
Revised
Right Away
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I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? That's sort of like deciding to build a better search engine - very expensive, with a high likelihood of failure.
John Battelle / Author
Failure
Audacious
Driven
Expensive
Likelihood
Passion
Search Engine
Build
Deciding
Set
High
Engine
Facebook
Right Mind
Search
Taking
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TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.
Jonathan Zittrain / Law Professor
Bandwidth
Determined
Power Use World
Airwaves
Asserted
Broadcast
Deciding
Exceptions
Governments
Owned
Territories
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When I was a kid and my dad was playing for Man United, I used to stand behind the goal watching Eric Cantona, David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Mark Hughes, Andrei Kanchelskis, Ryan Giggs... and I used to try to save all their shots that went wide, imagining I was deciding the title for United.
Kasper Schmeichel /
Beckham
Wide
Deciding
Hughes
Imagining
Paul
Ryan
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Is deciding what you like an instinct, a sense that arrives as swiftly as my autoimmune response to cat dander? Or is it the result of reasoned consideration, the way wine tasters swish pinot noir around in their mouths, spit it out, and reach for complex metaphors about chocolate and tobacco?
Rumaan Alam /
Cat
Chocolate
Consideration
Instinct
Mouths
Noir
Response
Spit
Tobacco
Wine
Complex
Deciding
Metaphors
Reach
Result
Swiftly
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Animation tends to have several different writers who serve different functions. I think, on a lot of animated features, there are a lot of writers who don't get credited. It's the policy at Disney, for instance, in deciding who gets credit. It depends on the writer's contract, so many things.
Kelly Asbury /
Animated
Credit
Depends
Features
Instance
Contract
Deciding
Disney
Functions
Tends
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Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.
Seth Gabel / Actor
Baby
Blessed
Born
Children
Strings
Surreal
Child
Since
Almost
Arrived
Babies
Somewhere
Life Me Nothing
Deciding
Period
First Child
Professionally
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I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.
Whitney Cummings / Comedian
Quirky
Men
Fate
Should Have
Always Enough Man
Sidekick
Agent
Man Me Remember
Bar
Carrying
Deciding
Near
Ogre
Torch
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We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.
George Saunders / Writer
Bonus
Character
Clients
Order
Paid
Rivers
Water
Steer
Convey
Deciding
Guide
Purposely
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I converted Dec. 31, 1999. It was a Friday. That was my second time going to the mosque. The woman who is my wife now... was basically raised Muslim - and she was at that point where she was deciding or trying to come to terms with her own relationship with Islam and how to embrace that for herself.
Mahershala Ali / Actor
Embrace
Friday
Islam
Converted
Deciding
Herself
Mosque
Muslim
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I started doing science when I was effectively 20, a graduate student of Salvador Luria at Indiana University. And that was - you know, it took me about two years, you know, being a graduate student with Luria deciding I wanted to find the structure of DNA; that is, DNA was going to be my objective.
James D. Watson / Molecular Biologist
Dna
Indiana
Structure
University
Deciding
Effectively
Graduate
Graduate Student
Objective
Salvador
Took
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A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.
Virat Kohli / Cricketer
Blame
Deciding
Distract
Facing
Fail
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I started school because I felt like, as a songwriter, I was operating solely on instinct, and I was having a hard time deciding exactly what words I wanted to use. I felt like I wanted to be a writer, and being a curious person, school felt like a way to solve the problems I was having with my own work.
Amanda Shires / Singer-Songwriter
Instinct
Curious Person
Deciding
Exactly What
Hard Time
Solely
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You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.
Alan Arkin / Actor
Ocean
Calm
Glory
March
Sea
Steady
Wave
Career
Take
Deciding
Look
Gonna
Small
Some
Upward
Which
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I remember the moment in which we were taken hostage in Libya, and we were asked to lie face down on the ground, and they started putting our arms behind our backs and started tying us up. And we were each begging for our lives because they were deciding whether to execute us, and they had guns to our heads.
Lynsey Addario / Photojournalist
Arms
Begging
Libya
Backs
Guns
Deciding
Execute
Heads
Tying
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At Warby Parker, we ask ourselves a number of questions when deciding whether or not to partner up with a designer, or a nonprofit or brand. Is the potential collaboration new? Is it unexpected? Will it result in something worth talking about over dinner? Will it do good? Will it introduce us to a new audience?
Neil Blumenthal /
Collaboration
Designer
Unexpected
Deciding
Introduce
Nonprofit
Parker
Partner
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There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most abject conditions. Maybe there are some things at work in deciding who gets to be society's winners and who gets to be society's losers that don't have to do with merit.
Katherine Boo / Journalist
Conditions
Immense
Merit
People
Way
Abject
Prefer
Clearly
Deciding
Losers
Gets
Gifts
Maybe
Winners
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Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed in 'Old Ireland.' It has been made all of kitsch by the diaspora, looking back and deciding what Ireland is. Yes, it is green. Yes, it is friendly. I can't think of anything else for definite.
Anne Enright / Author
Celtic
Definite
Friendly
Green
Ireland
Looking Back
Revival
Series
Anything Else
Looking Back Looking Back
Believed
Deciding
Yes
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I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner in one language and I feel that the liberation of creativity has to be in all senses. So I've been deciding to publishing something very simple but very small at the same time, nothing egocentric.
Ana Tijoux / Musician
Creativity
Egocentric
Liberation
Prisoner
Publishing
Reflection
Senses
Shy
Simple
Song
Deciding
Feeling
Small
More And More
Reflections
Same Time
Thoughts
Ways
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I'm confused that there is a lack of faith in listening to and deciding what is a great song and instead going for these formulaic, bad songs over and over again. But that's what happened when people from beverage companies bought record labels and radio stations as opposed to people who love music owning record labels.
Patty Griffin / Singer-Songwriter
Love
Confused
Labels
Radio Stations
Song
Stations
Love Faith Great
Love Faith Music
Beverage
Bought
Deciding
Great Song
Opposed
Owning
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Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.
Jeffrey Eugenides / Novelist
New York
Fate
Function
Gay
Gay Marriage
Remains
Marriage Gay People
Actions
Deciding
Determines
Heads
Marriages
Potent
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You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to rehearse until you become that person, and forgiving yourself until you do.
Bernie Siegel / Writer
Advantage
Forgiving
Willing
Deciding
Parts
Rehearse
Survive
Whom
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It's a very complex network of genes making products which go into the nucleus and turn on other genes. And, in fact, you find a continuing network of processes going on in a very complex way by which genes are subject to these continual adjustments, as you might say - the computer programmer deciding which genes ultimately will work.
John Gurdon /
Adjustment
Computer
Continuing
Genes
Products
Work Will Way
Complex
Deciding
Work Way Will
In Fact
Network
Processes
Subject
Ultimately
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I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.
Nina Bawden / Novelist
Abandoned
Cleaning
Exam
Mother
Oxford
Postman
Scholarship
School
Deciding
Failed
Farm
Handed
Letter
Waited
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I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered her when accepting or declining roles.
T'keyah Crystal Keymah / Producer
Household
Mimicking
Performers
Television
Smile Face Me
Smile Always Face
Considered
Began
Deciding
Performer
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I was lucky enough to create my own dress, deciding on every single design detail. But, even if you don't have a custom dress, you can still create a signature wedding-day look with personalization - a belt, altering the sleeves, etc. But, when creating your bridal style, the most important thing to remember is to make it feel like you.
Margherita Missoni / Model
Design
Bridal
Creating
Enough
Etc
Lucky
My Own
Remember
Single
Sleeves
Altering
Belt
Create
Custom
Deciding
Detail
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Signature
The Most Important
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People do judge books by their covers, and the magazine editors deciding whether to include your book on their pages are working in a visual medium. So if you're less than thrilled by the cover your publisher proposes, don't be afraid to ask for an alternate version. Odds are that they want you to be happy with the final product, anyway.
Camille Perri /
Editors
Odds
Pages
Visual
Alternate
Be Happy
Covers
Deciding
Final
Include
Magazine
Medium
Proposes
Publisher
Thrilled
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As the director, it's just a constant stream of meetings where you meet with all of the creatives who make all of the decisions for every part of the episodes. You're also scouting for locations, deciding on the locations, meeting with your first associate director; mine was Jennifer Truelove. She's one of my favorite people on the planet.
Miriam Shor / Film Actress
Constant
Episodes
Jennifer
Scouting
Decisions
Associate
Director
Favorite
Deciding
Favorite People
Locations
Meet
Meeting
Mine
Planet
Stream
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