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I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
– Richard M. Nixon
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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.
– Ricky Williams
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I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
– William Hague
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
– Rand Paul
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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 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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I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.
– Mark Knopfler
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I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.
– Arizona Muse
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I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.
– Marcia Wallace
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I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
– Nicholas Sparks
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I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.
– Julie Walters
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I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.
– William Shatner
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I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.
– Chris Evans
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I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.
– Emma Watson
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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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I don't change. The things around me change.
– Jeremy Renner
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I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.
– Barack Obama
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I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don't have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.
– Sebastian Vettel
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I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.
– Olivia Thirlby
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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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I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.
– Katherine Heigl
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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 point.
– Al Gore
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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 discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.
– William Brewster
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I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.
– Kid Rock
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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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I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.
– Elijah Wood
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I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions.
– Kevin Rudd
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I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.
– Bob Dylan
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I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.
– Nicolas Cage
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I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
– Sting
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
– Gabrielle Union
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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 can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.
– Boris Becker
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I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.
– Mike O'Malley
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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
– Alice Walker
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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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I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all.
– Jennifer Sky
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I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.
– Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
– Vidal Sassoon
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I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.
– William Hague
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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
– Dan Quayle
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I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.
– Yvon Chouinard
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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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I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.
– Juliette Binoche
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I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.
– Janelle Monae
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I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.
– Stanislav Grof
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I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.
– Stephen Daldry
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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.
– Lenny Kravitz
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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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I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
– Marilyn Monroe
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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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I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.
– Michelle Obama
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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 am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
– Henry Rollins
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I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year.
– Isabel Allende
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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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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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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 always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.
– Janet Jackson
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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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Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
– Doug Coupland
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Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.
– Paul Ryan
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Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.
– Marco Rubio
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Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.
– Doug E. Fresh
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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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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
– Friedrich Schiller
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Habits change into character.
– Ovid
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Growing up my whole life, my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it's important for girls to know that they can change the world, that they do have an impact.
– Ashley Greene
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Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'
– Marilyn Manson
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Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.
– Meghan O'Rourke
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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
– John Milton
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Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
– Jonathan Sacks
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
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Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
– Ingrid Newkirk
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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 Ditto
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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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Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.
– Jeff Goodell
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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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Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
– Lewis B. Smedes
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For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
– Steve Jobs
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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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For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.
– Michelle Obama
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For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.
– Tom Peters
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For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different.
– Lucy Powell
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For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.
– Isabel Allende
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
– Vidal Sassoon
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For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
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For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful.
– Michael Apted
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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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For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
– Conrad Black
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Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.
– Gabrielle Reece
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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.
– Rush Limbaugh
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Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.
– Jack LaLanne
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First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.
– Neil LaBute
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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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Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
– Chuck Palahniuk
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Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society.
– Pratibha Patil
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