Quotes about: change

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
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
I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.
– Ian Jackson
I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.
– Olivia Munn
I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.
– Meg Whitman
I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.
– Vanessa Kerry
I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.
– Wallace Shawn
I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
– Taylor Swift
I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.
– Bruce Willis
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. We agree to disagree.
– Katy Perry
I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.
– Jamie Lee Curtis
I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
– Eddie Vedder
I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
– Brian Eno
I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
– Godfrey Reggio
I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.
– Al Gore
I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.
– David Cameron
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
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
I think I can change the game.
– Venus Williams
I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.
– Tori Amos
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
I think clothes should make you feel safe. I like clothes you want to go to sleep in. I sometimes stand in front of a mirror and change a million times because I know I really want to wear my nightgown.
– Gilda Radner
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
I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.
– Iain Banks
I take sounds and change them into words.
– Brian Eno
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
– Tom Stoppard
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
I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways.
– Richard Eyre
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
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
– Victoria Woodhull
I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
– Rahm Emanuel
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
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
I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.
– Jane D. Hull
I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.
– James McGreevey
I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.
– Leonardo DiCaprio
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
I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
– Taylor Swift
I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
– Constance Baker Motley
I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.
– Rachel Weisz
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
– Michael Pollan
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
– Alan Rickman
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
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
I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.
– Nicolas Cage
I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.
– Roy Orbison
I love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change.
– Katy Perry
I love to watch times change!
– Karl Lagerfeld
I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
– Danny Boyle
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
I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!
– Susan Smith
I love change, I need it.
– Rod Stewart
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
I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think I don't need or want anything to change that.
– Jordin Sparks
I like progress but I hate change.
– Jon Bon Jovi
I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.
– David Bailey
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
I know that my race must change.
– Chief Joseph
I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.
– Jodi Picoult
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
I keep my weight low, although you need to be able to move your weight around the race car to change the balance. I'm 6ft and I'm 70kg so I haven't much fat on me.
– Jenson Button
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
I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.
– Kelly Lynch
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
I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous.
– Beth Ditto
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
I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.
– Sydney Schanberg
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
I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.
– Kesha
I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.
– Marlee Matlin
I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.
– Mario Monti
I hope that in future Congresses there will reemerge a recognition that climate change is a reality, that our policies to meet our energy needs must also deal responsibly with environmental issues, including the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
– Jeff Bingaman
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
– Gillian Anderson
I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
– David Sedaris
I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.
– Robert Plant
I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.
– Helena Bonham Carter
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
I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
– Haile Gebrselassie
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
– Stephen Hawking
I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.
– Gijs de Vries
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
I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.
– Henry Rollins
I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
– Damien Hirst
I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
– Richard Nelson Bolles
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
– Erica Jong
I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.
– Evo Morales
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
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
I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate.
– Rick Perry
I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.
– Andre Dubus III
I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.
– Temple Grandin
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 a better theory of financial stress tests.
– Elizabeth Warren
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
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
I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.
– Francis Maude
I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
– Jeanette Winterson
I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.
– Nick Clegg
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
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
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