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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).
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“Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.” -Debby Boone
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“For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.” -Quentin Crisp
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“Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you’re really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.” -Gary Oldman
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“Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.” -George Gurdjieff
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“Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author’s life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.” -Sarah Zettel
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“A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.” -Jenny Craig
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“It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.” -Gerry Adams
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“I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.” -Alan Alda
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“One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes… but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes – and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.” -Marc Andreessen
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“If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too yes, I see what you mean but, really, it’s jewels that change an outfit.” -Manolo Blahnik
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“We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.” -Ron Fournier
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“Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change – focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.” -Joy Page
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“I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it’s essential to do so.” -Stephen Harper
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“All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future… most importantly global warming and climate change.” -Cate Blanchett
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“A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn’t do if it didn’t have rabies. But that doesn’t change the fact that it has rabies.” -John Malkovich
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“Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.” -William J. Clinton
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“Cats don’t like change without their consent.” -Roger Caras
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“One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don’t change diapers in midstream.” -Don Marquis
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“I like change. There’s something Buddhist about it – continuous change is wonderful.” -David Bailey
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“It’s quite nice to see that I didn’t have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.” -Marc Jacobs
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“Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.” -Wynton Marsalis
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“Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn’t know.” -Russell Baker
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“I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.” -Jackie Chan
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“I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it.” -Glenn Beck
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“If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?” -Gloria Steinem
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“It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It’s not the body-the body will change.” -Amber Valletta
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“Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.” -Henry W. Kendall
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“As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.” -Charles W. Chesnutt
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“Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it’s not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.” -Steve Harvey
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“I didn’t think that college math was for me. I didn’t think I’d be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.” -Danica McKellar
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“The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?” -Max de Pree
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“I’m a typical middle child. I’m the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody’s happy. It’s hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.” -Jennifer Jason Leigh
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“I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution.” -Peter Camejo
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“Unless it’s a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.” -Christina Ricci
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“In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.” -Herbert Spencer
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“The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.” -Robert Bork
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“What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don’t think my mother had that opportunity to change.” -Jeanne Moreau
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“The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.” -Marilyn Ferguson
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“If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.” -J. Michael Straczynski
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“If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.” -Eldridge Cleaver
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“Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.” -Primo Levi
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“It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.” -Luther Burbank
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“People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.” -Dick Gregory
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“I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.” -Ernie Pyle
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“I just don’t believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.” -Sydney Schanberg
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“One expected growth, change without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.” -Charles de Lint
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“Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.” -Charles Eames
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“You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same… but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it’s unpredictable. You can’t be off in outer space…
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“There has been a change in men’s attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion they’re not afraid of it.” -Calvin Klein
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“Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we’re slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we’re not told growing up, and it’s our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.” -Beth…
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“I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.” -Isaac Watts
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“Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.” -Kate Millett
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“If we don’t like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.” -Medgar Evers
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“Whether you’re winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can’t change because of the circumstances around you.” -Cotton Fitzsimmons
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“I’m trying to change the culture in New York City that’s hard enough!” -Michael Bloomberg
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“Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.” -Billie Joe Armstrong
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“I learned to change my accent in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.” -Sting
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“I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they’re active, informed, and engaged.” -Jim DeMint
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“I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.” -Herman Cain
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“It’s been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with the first record a lot of the kids in the crowd were wearing neck ties like I was and now you’ll see a lot of girls with pink hair. It’s cool,…
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“Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.” -James Cash Penney
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“No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I’ve done very few of those. I’ve got a feeling it’s going to change things for me.” -Helena Bonham Carter
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“All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.” -John Podhoretz
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“The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn’t change the name of our country.” -Imelda Marcos
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“When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.” -Peter Singer
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“I absolutely don’t care about my looks and I’m so used to them that I wouldn’t change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.” -Colin Firth
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“Maybe we all change over time.” -Elizabeth Edwards
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“Some people seem to understand this – that life and change take time – but I am not one of those people.” -Anne Lamott
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“I think I’m actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.” -Roland Gift
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“I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I’m basically the same person I was when I won ‘Idol,’ or when I was 10.” -Kelly Clarkson
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“I don’t have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.” -Annie Lennox
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“The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.” -Emma Goldman
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“We’re not trying to change the world just music.” -Jonathan Davis
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“Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.” -Hugh Mackay
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“That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.” -Freda Adler
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“I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don’t have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can’t obsess about it.” -Sienna Miller
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“I wouldn’t change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.” -Sidney Poitier
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“You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There’ll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.” -Francesca Annis
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“Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.” -Tom Peters
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“Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.” -Nicolas Chamfort
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“The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.” -David Cameron
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“One new feature or fresh take can change everything.” -Neil Young
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“I’ve had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that’s OK with me. I don’t feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?” -Kevin Costner
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“Don’t manage – lead change before you have to.” -Jack Welch
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“I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.” -Alan Rickman
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“Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.” -Nikki Giovanni
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“Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair… Change my name, just see what happens.” -Larry David
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“Anyone who’s lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change – as anyone would change.” -Mindy Kaling
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“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.” -Ursula K. Le Guin
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“Rather than saying, ‘My checking account is a wreck,’ change it to ‘I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.’” -Suze Orman
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“I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.” -Keanu Reeves
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“To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.” -Tom Robbins
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“One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.” -Philip Wylie
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“A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.” -Garrett Hardin
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“The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.” -Charles Morgan
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“With the never-ending stream of new social technologies, apps and platforms rolling out every day, its easy to get lost in the minutiae of social media. Yet for there to be effective change, especially within large, top-down, hierarchical institutions, a company must have an over-arching understanding of the new role it has to play.” -Simon…
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“And it’s absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating – and the levels of the communication that I’ve seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don’t we have that here?” -Emma Thompson
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“Before ‘Schindler’s List,’ I wouldn’t have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.” -Liam Neeson
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“The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it… It’s a great outlet. I’m not really sure who I am – it seems I change every day.” -Leonardo DiCaprio
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“I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America’s most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit – audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.” -Camille Paglia
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“I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.” -Marilyn vos Savant
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“When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that’s just the way the real world is.” -Carly Fiorina
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“An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.” -Robin Quivers
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“When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.” -Tony Parsons
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“Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.” -Richard Wagner
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“Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like ‘Modern Family,’ but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.” -Eric McCormack
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“I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with a bag and go to day to night and change things up.” -Maria Sharapova
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“Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.” -John Henry Newman
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“I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they’ve ceased to be of any use to either of you. I’m always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.” -John Cleese
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“It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.” -Rick Perry
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“The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.” -Dante Alighieri
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“Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.” -John Updike
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“My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that – building something that actually makes a really big change in…
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“Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.” -David Wilkerson
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“For the last 20 years of my life, I’ve had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I’m attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That’s what I’m always searching for and I don’t think that’s ever going to change.” -John Hawkes
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“Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.” -Abel Ferrara
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“The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.” -Satchel Paige
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“Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, ‘Things don’t look like that!’” -David Hockney
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“Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.” -Ang Lee
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“It’s best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.” -Charles Kuralt
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“I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.” -Kesha
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“There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can’t look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a…
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“You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.” -Jawaharlal Nehru
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“We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.” -Dan Quayle
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“Logic will never change emotion or perception.” -Edward de Bono
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“Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people’s ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.” -Miriam Makeba
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“Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.” -Elvis Presley
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“I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it’s not good for me.” -Shania Twain
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“The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’” -Michael Caine
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“Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we’d call the millennium.” -Pat Robertson
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“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.” -Mike Murdock
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“If you’ve ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.” -Jeff Foxworthy
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“The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.” -Robert Fulghum
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“I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don’t try to change them anymore, and I don’t think they try to change me.” -Katy Perry
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“People don’t change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.” -Sharon Stone
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“And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.” -John Motson
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“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” -Miriam Beard
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“I don’t think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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“I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.” -Tori Amos
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“Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.” -Marco Rubio
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“If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.” -Kathryn Bigelow
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“I can’t change overnight into a serious literary author. You can’t compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.” -John Grisham
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“I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.” -Robert Plant
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“We don’t change what we are, we change what we think what we are.” -Eric Butterworth
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“In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.” -Christina Aguilera
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“Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.” -Shirley MacLaine
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“I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it’s in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It’s about oneness.” -Hugh Jackman
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“If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are ‘Transformers’ or Lars von Trier, he’s probably shipping out for ‘Transformers.’ If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, ‘Transformers’ or Lars von Trier, he’d probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as…
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“There’s no sense in going to a tournament if you don’t believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.” -Tiger Woods
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“I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that’s not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.” -Tahar Ben Jelloun
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“Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.” -Woody Guthrie
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“It’s a huge change for your body. You don’t even want to look in the mirror after you’ve had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.” -Cindy Crawford
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“Don’t fear change – embrace it.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo
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“I am Jose Mourinho and I don’t change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.” -Jose Mourinho
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“Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you’re on the boat thoughts are no different than anything else.” -Jeff Bridges
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“Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.” -Samuel Goldwyn
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“I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.” -Shirley Manson
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“An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.” -William Tecumseh Sherman
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“The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.” -Dale Earnhardt
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“If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone’s day.” -Julianna Margulies
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“Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.” -Pope Paul VI
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“Being ready isn’t enough you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.” -Pat Riley
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“We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.” -Abu Bakar Bashir
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“This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.” -Timothy Zahn
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“Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.” -Malcolm Fraser
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“I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.” -Taylor Swift
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“Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.” -Marilu Henner
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“I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.” -Edward James Olmos
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