change

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘change’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.” -John Mayer

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  • “If any man claims the Negro should be content… let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.” -Robert Kennedy

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  • “I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.” -Pink

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  • “Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn’t.” -Linda Ellerbee

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  • “We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.” -Freeman…

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  • “It’s better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.” -John H. Johnson

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  • “If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.” -Marian Wright Edelman

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  • “I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can’t write a…

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  • “Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.” -Rudy Giuliani

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  • “A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.” -Ivy Compton-Burnett

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  • “The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.” -Gene Tierney

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  • “I’d be happy to be taken as a woman – and that’s what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn’t going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I’d change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.”…

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  • “What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.” -Jonathan Sacks

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  • “Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don’t think it’s going to happen soon.” -Nick Clegg

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  • “My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.” -Tom Hanks

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  • “You do have to change things as warfare changes.” -Charles Schumer

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  • “I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we’re used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we’re moving closer and closer to that tipping…

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  • “But I think it’s more that when you’re young, you’re invincible, you’re immortal – or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you’re inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It’s fixed. You can’t change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.” -Damien…

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  • “You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn’t play that way. It’s about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.” -Gael Garcia Bernal

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  • “Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.” -Friedrich Durrenmatt

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  • “Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.” -Margaret Cho

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  • “Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.” -Brett Favre

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  • “Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.” -Charles Sanders Peirce

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  • “I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing ‘Famished Road,’ which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had…

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  • “Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.” -Peace Pilgrim

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  • “I don’t read reviews because by then it’s too late – whatever anyone says, the book won’t change. It is written.” -Jeanette Winterson

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  • “Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.” -Muqtada al Sadr

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  • “And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people – not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base – is through education.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “I’d say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say ‘matured’ but I don’t think I’d use that word in relation to my progress. I think ‘change’ is a little more accurate.” -Rick Springfield

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  • “Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.” -Jeff Cooper

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  • “We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance… And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.” -Joan D. Vinge

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  • “I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, ‘It’s easier to change directions while you’re still moving.’ If you stop, it’s harder to get started again. I still don’t think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.” -Debra Winger

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  • “I don’t change. The things around me change.” -Jeremy Renner

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  • “Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don’t trust their government anymore, and demand a change?” -Chris Christie

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  • “Well… I had braces and I had to wear headgear! I loved my braces, actually. For me, they were like a piece of jewelry! Instead of the silver or pewter I had gold braces. It was so much fun, I loved them. I got to change the colors and stuff and I had the rubber…

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  • “Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.” -David Letterman

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  • “I think I can change the game.” -Venus Williams

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  • “If I have to change my lifestyle, I don’t want to live.” -Robert Mapplethorpe

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  • “I wouldn’t change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.” -Ethel Merman

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  • “Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.” -Ralph Abernathy

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  • “I’m definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.” -Andy Murray

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  • “One of the things I’ve always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it – like, not to change.” -Peter Steele

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  • “No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.” -Hamid Karzai

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  • “The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.” -Paul Wellstone

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  • “You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don’t balance the budget, we don’t pay them.” -Daniel Keys Moran

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  • “Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.” -Michael Porter

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  • “Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.” -Mario Batali

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  • “So I think it’s – what was important to me is that I found that I can’t change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don’t think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.” -Monica Lewinsky

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  • “There are many challenges, there are many obstacles let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.” -Harri Holkeri

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  • “On the political front, of course it’s a zero-sum game. If it’s all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it’s, ‘Women are coming!’ Get 10 blacks and it’s, ‘Blacks are coming!’ ‘Hispanics are coming!’ Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don’t move. In the economy, the number of…

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  • “If your life changes, we can change the world, too.” -Yoko Ono

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  • “I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.” -Rachel Weisz

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  • “When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There’s a momentum for change that’s very compelling.” -Anne M. Mulcahy

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  • “When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.” -Andrew Shue

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  • “Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let’s love turbulence and use it for change.” -Ramsey Clark

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  • “I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that’s just a bone – so even if I lose weight that’s not going to change anything. That’s how I look. That’s my shape. Do the math.” -Christina Hendricks

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  • “Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.” -George C. Wallace

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  • “I’m a role model now. I didn’t know I was gonna have 13-year-old fans, so I’ve tried to change a few things here and there. But I also know that the girls don’t want me to be Miley Cyrus, either.” -Nicki Minaj

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  • “As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn’t, so making films would change nothing.” -Claude Chabrol

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  • “I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men’s formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!” -Steven Cojocaru

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  • “When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, ‘Oh I change too, I’m constantly becoming a better person.’” -Jason Reitman

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  • “Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I’m not a very adventureous person. I don’t look for change.” -Namie Amuro

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  • “I just think we’re living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.” -Kelly Lynch

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  • “We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely… change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.” -George A. Sheehan

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  • “Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.” -John Walters

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  • “You must change in order to survive.” -Pearl Bailey

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  • “We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.” -Naguib Mahfouz

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  • “When I’m bored or tired of being blonde, I’ll throw on a wig. It’s a lot less of a permanent way to change your look, and I have about 10 – all different colors, shapes, bobs, long hair, short, feathered.” -Sara Blakely

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  • “I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.” -LL Cool J

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  • “I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.” -Lenny Kravitz

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  • “I’m all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that’s just how it goes.” -Kid Rock

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  • “The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.” -Eliot Spitzer

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  • “I’m not going to change the world overnight. It’s one person at a time, and hopefully they’re people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.” -Gabrielle Union

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  • “I think if there’s any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it’s that I’ve been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what’s expected.” -Andrew Mason

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  • “Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn’t mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.” -Mike Ditka

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  • “To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People’s attitudes would change. It would be a better place.” -Tommy Chong

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  • “You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don’t give equal rights to women, you can’t progress.” -Shimon Peres

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  • “One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that’s all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.” -Nick Carter

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  • “One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can’t go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer, that’s gone to oil!” -Terry McAuliffe

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  • “Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the ’50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.” -Gary Ross

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  • “I always get bored with my hair. That’s why I would always change it throughout my career.” -Janet Jackson

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  • “We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.” -Steven Tyler

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  • “There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it – roaming the world.”…

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  • “The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.” -Sydney Madwed

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  • “All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.” -Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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  • “Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.” -Paul Auster

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  • “The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.” -Lech Walesa

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  • “In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.” -Sarah Palin

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  • “If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.” -Salman Rushdie

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  • “I don’t think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.” -James Hillman

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  • “As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World…

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  • “If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what’s gone wrong, then you have to change your government.” -George Osborne

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  • “Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.” -James Buchan

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  • “I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I’m angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?” -Andrew Cuomo

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  • “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” -Carol Burnett

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  • “One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he’s the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.” -Dean Koontz

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  • “You know, for 300 years it’s been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn’t changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?” -Emeril Lagasse

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  • “There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.” -Vera Farmiga

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  • “I don’t think we’re yet evolved to the point where we’re clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can’t really do anything meaningful.” -James Lovelock

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  • “The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.” -Twyla Tharp

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  • “The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can’t change your mind, because God sure isn’t going to change His.” -Roger Ebert

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  • “You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That’s what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don’t go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they’re not going to have that imagination.” -Jennifer Lopez

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  • “When you first have a baby your life doesn’t change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it’s just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, ‘Wow, they got…

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  • “What’s certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba’s can’t continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.” -Vaclav Havel

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  • “When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.” -John Boyd Orr

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  • “One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won’t jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to…

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  • “If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.” -Valerie Jarrett

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  • “We have to raise the consciousness the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.” -Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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  • “Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it’s a quiet thing. At least for me it was.” -Ben Vereen

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  • “Every day I’m thinking about change.” -Miuccia Prada

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  • “I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.” -Waylon Jennings

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  • “I’ve always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that’s what I wanted to wear everyday.” -Patti Smith

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  • “You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.” -Allen Klein

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  • “President Obama’s version of America is a divided one – pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that.” -Mia Love

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  • “The experience of being in space didn’t change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.” -Sally Ride

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  • “From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.” -David Suzuki

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  • “People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.” -Keith Henson

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  • “Some people call it global warming some people call it climate change. What is the difference?” -Frank Luntz

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  • “In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.” -Nhat Hanh

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  • “I don’t allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.” -Britney Spears

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  • “This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We’ve had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.” -Maxine Waters

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  • “I don’t think I’m really open to having Washington change me.” -Rand Paul

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  • “We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.” -Christopher Lasch

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  • “People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.” -Miranda Lambert

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  • “People lose people, we lose things in our life as we’re constantly growing and changing. That’s what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It’s what you gain from that loss that makes life.” -Thomas Jane

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  • “I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.” -Jamie Lee Curtis

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  • “Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.” -Herodotus

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  • “Change is one of my favourite words.” -Carol Vorderman

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  • “I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.” -Haile Gebrselassie

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  • “I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.” -Sherri Shepherd

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  • “Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.” -Ice T

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  • “You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You’re the same person. Just go.” -Nathan Fillion

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  • “There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.” -Henry George

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  • “When you’re a catalyst for change, you make enemies – and I’m proud of the ones I’ve got.” -Rupert Murdoch

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  • “Even God cannot change the past.” -Agathon

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  • “Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.” -Diane Arbus

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  • “I didn’t come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.” -Tony Blair

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  • “When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that’s what Hollywood’s like. It’s a little block, little town. It doesn’t really grow or change.” -Robert Rodriguez

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  • “I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change – which lasted a couple of weeks – was based on the very simple instinct that it’s wrong to kill animals for food.” -Jonathan Safran Foer

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  • “Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.” -Walter Isaacson

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  • “Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.” -Chris Martin

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  • “Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help…

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  • “There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment – and you start to decline.” -Andy Grove

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  • “My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.” -Martha Beck

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  • “Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.” -Spike Lee

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  • “Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.” -Kenneth L. Pike

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  • “When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I’m older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.” -Michael Sheen

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  • “Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.” -Alvin Toffler

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  • “I want to be able to look back and say, ‘I’ve done everything I can, and I was successful.’ I don’t want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I’d like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.” -Michael Phelps

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  • “People’s view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.” -Laura Linney

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  • “I wouldn’t change a thing – except my bank balance.” -Johnny Thunders

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  • “No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.” -Kinky Friedman

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  • “There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.” -Euripedes

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  • “This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see… the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.” -Arthur Erickson

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  • “That’s the thing about interviews, at some point you’re going to change your mind. But it’s there forever and you can’t escape it.” -Martha Plimpton

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  • “Some argue that now isn’t the time to push the green agenda – that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem – high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields…

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  • “It is not strange… to mistake change for progress.” -Millard Fillmore

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  • “I do like change. That’s the one thing exciting about me.” -Katherine Heigl

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  • “The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.” -Alfred North Whitehead

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  • “I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it’s not working, I change the position.” -Annie Leibovitz

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  • “I think if there’s something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn’t have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please – not that it’s not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.” -Brittany Murphy

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  • “Fame changes a lot of things, but it can’t change a lightbulb.” -Gilda Radner

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  • “Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control.” -Margaret J. Wheatley

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  • “As far as I’m aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there’s a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.” -William Hague

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  • “It’s important to fall in love with someone you don’t want to change.” -Jessica Simpson

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  • “Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.” -Marge Piercy

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  • “I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.” -Snoop Dogg

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  • “We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don’t want to change anything.” -Jacques Delors

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  • “I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I’m used to.” -Dennis Quaid

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  • “If we’re going to change the laws, let’s change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.” -John Dingell

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  • “Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship you are very much in love with someone, but it’s making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.” -Vanessa Paradis

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  • “I have to say, you know, I’ve seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want – have their priorities change and want different things.” -Rashida Jones

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  • “Any form of art is a form of power it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.” -Ossie Davis

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  • “I do believe sadly it’s going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.” -Jenny McCarthy

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  • “I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain…

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  • “It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.” -David…

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  • “When I joined Bill Clinton’s start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute’s thought to what would happen if we won. When we did – and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary – it…

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  • “As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.” -Lea DeLaria

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  • “Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I’m never going to change that film.” -David Ogden Stiers

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  • “The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.” -Susan Sontag

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