Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.
Cormac McCarthy
Related I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was... ALAN GREENSPAN The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it playe... BARBARA CORCORAN The money is great, but the decision was made by me and my family even before the offer was made. Th... KRIS CHUCKO It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into. TERRI GUILLEMETS It was the worst thing I ever heard in my life. KRISTEN STAAB UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life. NANA MOUSKOURI The hardest thing I've ever done in my life was when I had to make this decision to end someone's li... EUNICE NEWCOMER Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I wa... SEAN BEAN I watch the back of Abel's head for a moment before opening the door. Coming to him was the right th... CELIA MCMAHON Right before I did it, everything went silent and the next thing I know I'm just watching the ball g... JASON GORE I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, ... NICHOLAS MEYER The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling i... ORSON WELLES My life is different than it ever was before. JOY DENEEN Walking on here was the scariest thing I've ever done, but the girls were so nice and always made me... JUDY VOGT Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done. ANGUS YOUNG The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' ... RON WHITE I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and mov... MELISSA ETHERIDGE Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I kn... JOHN LOGAN I worked with Ice-T, Ice Cube, and Tupac! But Tupac was the sweetest man in the world. That whole th... LORI PETTY was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. MICHAEL JACKSON possibly the most shameful situation that I've ever gotten myself in in my life, and I've done some ... DAVID LETTERMAN He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo... CHRISTINA ENGELA It was the smartest thing I've ever done, ASHTON KUTCHER Dumb, dumb, ... It was a dumb interception and then B.J. and I had a little miscommunication. JEFF ROWE If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done. LORD MELBOURNE It was the most horrible thing I've ever seen in my life. CINDY GREGORY When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this... JIM CARREY I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I wa... AFROJACK Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happe... NELSAN ELLIS It was the worst thing I ever saw. It was either his leg or his life. HOPE TRENT I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed m... MARY ELLEN MARK How could I have ever thought she was what was wrong in my life? She was the only thing that made an... ELLA FRANK The whole reason I did a bodybuilding show was to see how far I could push my own discipline. It was... MATT MCGORRY Oh, bloody oath it was. Of course it was. Huge error, huge error. Obviously the worst thing I ever d... MARK LATHAM It was very, very stressful. Once I made my decision, it was the biggest relief. It got to the point... BLAIRE HILER That was so dumb. I hated it. JAMIE DORAN That was fun, ... I don't think I've ever done anything like that before. The route didn't work out ... JEFF ROWE Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it. DALEY THOMPSON The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so deliciou... LESLEY NICOL It made me giddy. It made me blush, worse than before. It was like liquor. It made me drunk. I drew ... SARAH WATERS I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got fa... BRUCE WILLIS It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I knew that, in my whole life, if I married Aspen or someone else, no one would ever make me feel th... KIERA CASS It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought ab... STEVEN WRIGHT Forever, it was just soccer - passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of... ABBY WAMBACH And after every audition I booked, my parents would buy me a Barbie, so that was it for me: You got ... CHELAN SIMMONS I made 'True Detective' like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. S... NIC PIZZOLATTO My plan was just to run past him. My hand just got caught into his and I fouled him. ... It was just... JUSTIN DENTMON After that it was easy. It was the most impossible thing I’d ever done, but it was also easy. I he... KIMBERLY BRUBAKER BRADLEY I knew before the game, I knew if they needed a long one he would make it because he was getting it ... MARK MATLAK I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I go... BRUCE WILLIS I don't think I've ever frightened myself before when writing, but there were areas where th... ALAN GARNER It was a dumb foul. I thought I got him after the buzzer, but the camera showed I didn't. It was a m... JUSTIN DENTMON There was that period of time, everybody had told me about six months, before you really got it. It ... ANDREA SNYDER The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the s... HOWARD HUGHES My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks,... SHIA LABEOUF It was the kind of kiss I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that m... STEPHEN CHBOSKY When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, an... OLIVIA WILDE That was the scariest ... thing I've ever done in my life. I'm lucky I'm alive. DANNY WAY It didn't go smoothly; it was the most contentious thing I've ever done. RIVERS CUOMO They put in my head that it would make me better. It was the best decision I made career-wise. JASON JARAMILLO It was the luckiest thing that ever happened to me. Betty is to blame for it all. Whatever I am or h... WILL ROGERS I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had alwa... MEEK MILL I thought it was the most exciting thing I had ever heard in my lifetime. I was blown away. JOHN ARVIN I had never before considered leaving my religion, my family, my customs, and my beliefs behind. It ... CAROLYN JESSOP It was the best thing I ever did, JAYNE MIDDLEMISS I should have taken my loss, and so that was a really dumb thing to do, ... timed out. DON ROGERS I can pinpoint that as the single happiest moment of my life, because I realized then that Mom would... MARIA SEMPLE I don't feel like I've done this before. Last year it was a shock that I made it back, and this year... BARBIE VINEY Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taki... DAVID MORRISSEY Going to rehab was the best decision I ever made. LARA STONE Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then... GARETH GATES And she kissed me. It was the kind of kiss that I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly e... GEORGE CLOONEY The most difficult thing I've ever done was to tell the players. I wanted to make sure that they hea... BOB PRESCOTT Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer... ALAIN RESNAIS I wouldn't want it to happen to anyone. It was horrible. It was the scariest thing that's ever happe... HEATHER LEITCH The decision to hold [the story] never even got to me. It was made for good journalistic reasons. ARTHUR SULZBERGER JR All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa... DAVID BAILEY I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, t... KIEFER SUTHERLAND The biggest thing for me was getting to a point where my wife and I together felt that it was time, ... MIKE SINGLETARY I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever d... SHANNEN DOHERTY I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until... BRIAN ENO Right before I graduated from the national theatre school, I got the part of Roxie Hart in 'Chic... BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN It will give the production a centre that it's never ever had before. It's never had 'the real thing... ANDREW WEBBER It will give the production a centre that it's never ever had before. It's never had 'the real thing... ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER His sound was stunning -- it was the blues, it was R&B, it was gospel, it was swing -- it was all th... VAN MORRISON It was a heartbreaking decision but the way I felt on Saturday I knew I'd made the right choice, DANNY WILLIAMS It was by far my best round this summer, maybe ever under the circumstances. I really made some long... EDOARDO MOLINARI 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 But that was not his intention. That (avoiding the tax) never crossed his mind. It was not his pract... LARRY HARDAWAY I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ... TED KING Then one of my coaches told me to just enjoy it because it was the last time. So I was thinking abou... IAN SHANNON This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrev... DONALD JOHANSON I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was alwa... OLIVIA COLMAN I don't think I've ever forced a fumble before. I always played offense my whole life -- a little de... DESMOND CLARK Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful. SYLVIA PLATH This is awesome ... I don't believe it. I can't ever remember making a winning shot before tonight. ... DAN CERNUGEL I thought it was some local TV crew. They started talking to me and my dad. Then they asked me quest... DUCKMANN JR At 11 years old, I made a very definitive decision, and my decision was that I wanted to be happy. A... GOLDIE HAWN
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CORMAC MCCARTHY Como si el mundo se encogiera en torno a un núcleo de entidades desglosables. Las cosas cayendo en ... CORMAC MCCARTHY Algunas cosas las olvidas, no? Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar. CORMAC MCCARTHY The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indes... CORMAC MCCARTHY You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were. CORMAC MCCARTHY It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and ... CORMAC MCCARTHY Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou... CORMAC MCCARTHY But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse CORMAC MCCARTHY In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. CORMAC MCCARTHY He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibula... CORMAC MCCARTHY They rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the mornin... CORMAC MCCARTHY You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?' 'Yeah. But you remember some ... CORMAC MCCARTHY When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. CORMAC MCCARTHY The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a ... CORMAC MCCARTHY A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover hi... CORMAC MCCARTHY He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen an... CORMAC MCCARTHY The arrangement seems to be that UBS will buy Time Warner shares it seems for the voting rights but ... CORMAC BUTLER Icahn wants sufficient control to achieve his strategy of breaking up Time Warner. CORMAC BUTLER In a typical situation the investor accepts a low or zero interest rate in return for exposure to a ... CORMAC BUTLER Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. JOHN MCCARTHY Compassion is contempt with a human face. JOHN MCCARTHY Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull. KEVIN MCCARTHY Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics. MELISSA MCCARTHY To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's wh... MELISSA MCCARTHY As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work. KEVIN MCCARTHY I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo... KEVIN MCCARTHY Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. JOHN MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t... EUGENE MCCARTHY One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ... EUGENE MCCARTHY In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e... MARY MCCARTHY To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol... MARY MCCARTHY ...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag... MARY MCCARTHY Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? CHARLIE MCCARTHY We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story. MARY MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ... ALICE MCCARTHY The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go... ALICE MCCARTHY They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ... ALICE MCCARTHY I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin... ALICE MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith â€Ã... ALICE MCCARTHY Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith ... ERIN MCCARTHY Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?” “Because I love you. Because ... ERIN MCCARTHY The happy ending is our national belief. MARY MCCARTHY Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy. JOE MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. CHARLIE MCCARTHY Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. MARY MCCARTHY A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito... MARY MCCARTHY