“Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.”
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“You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change you change.”
“You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.”
“I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.”
“But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.”
“There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.”
“People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a d--n thing to change.”
“Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.”
“You can change friends but not neighbours.”
“We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.”
“Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.”
“Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.”
“If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.”
“Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.”
“In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.”
“Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.”
“In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.”
“We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.”
“Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.”
“We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.”
“We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.”
“We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.”
“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.”
“I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.”