925 private quotes tagged change

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

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“Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.” — Jeff Goodell

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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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“When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change.” — Michael Sheen

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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'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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“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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“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'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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“Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

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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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“News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.” — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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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 be doing pretty much the same thing.” — Jeff Goodell

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“I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to and as much as they want to and I've cut that way back.” — Mike Ditka

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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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“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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“Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.” — James Lovelock

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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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“I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.” — Patti Smith

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