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The education business is a little murky because by 1900, it has been pretty well decided that a certain amount of education was required to make the system of repression work. You had to have people who showed up punctually. You had to have people who took their orders obediently and understand them fully.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: Amount Because Been Business Certain Decided Education Fully Had Little Make Orders People Pretty Repression Required System Them Took Understand Up Well Who Work You

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I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research.

~David Liss

Topics: Adage Based Britain Century Decided Dissertation Knew Know Novel Old Research Should Would Write You 18Th Century

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I can still remember them wheeling the black and white TV sets into our classroom at school so we could watch the men landing on the Moon, and that obviously had a huge impact. I later found out those people flying Apollo were ex-military test pilots, so I decided to join the Air Force and become a test pilot.

~David Mackay

Topics: Air Air Force Apollo Become Black Black And White Classroom Could Decided Flying Force Found Had Huge Huge Impact Impact Join Landing Later Men Moon Obviously Our Out People Pilot Pilots Remember School Sets Still Test Them Those Tv Watch Were White I Can

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When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when Ted Hughes read my first anthology he would invite me to Yorkshire for meat pies and mentorship.

~David Mitchell

Topics: About Become Decided First Going Great He Hughes Invite Me Meat Poet Publish Read Ted Would Yorkshire

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When I discovered acting, I decided that's what I wanted to do above everything else. It was the first time I was passionate about anything.

~David Morrissey

Topics: About Above Acting Anything Decided Discovered Else Everything Everything Else First First Time Passionate Time Wanted

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I decided I was just going to sing the type of songs I gravitated toward and inspired me and moved me. I was going to let the people whose job it was to decide what places to put it, and let them do that. I'll stick to the singing part.

~David Nail

Topics: Decide Decided Going Inspired Job Just Me Moved Part People Places Put Sing Singing Songs Stick Them Toward Type Whose

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I'm going to be done when I've decided that I'm done.

~David Ortiz

Topics: Decided Done Going

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I grew up watching period dramas, as we all did in the 1980s and '90s - endless adaptations of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens - and I loved them. But I never saw anyone like me in them, so I decided to find a story to erode the excuses for me not doing one.

~David Oyelowo

Topics: Adaptation Anyone Austen Charles Charles Dickens Decided Dickens Did Doing Dramas Endless Excuses Find Grew Jane Jane Austen Like Loved Me Never Period Saw Story Them Up Watching 1980S

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The situation in Iraq was dire at the end of 2006, when President George W. Bush decided to implement the surge and selected me to command it. Indeed, when I returned to Baghdad in early February 2007, I found the conditions there to be even worse than I had expected.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Baghdad Bush Command Conditions Decided Dire Early End Even Even Worse Expected February Found George George W George W. Bush Had Implement Indeed Iraq Me President President George W. Bush Returned Selected Situation Surge Than Worse

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MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

~David Rockefeller

Topics: Decided Money Raise Space

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