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We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
– George A. Sheehan
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We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.
– Steven Tyler
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
– R. D. Laing
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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.
– Stephen King
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We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.
– John Boehner
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We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.
– Jacques Delors
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We have to raise the consciousness the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
– William Hague
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We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.
– David Cameron
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We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.
– Freeman Dyson
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We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.
– Vivienne Westwood
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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.
– Karen Armstrong
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We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
– Mary McLeod Bethune
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We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.
– Michael Eisner
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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
– Charles R. Swindoll
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We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
– James Hillman
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We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
– John Wooden
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
– Naguib Mahfouz
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We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
– Christopher Lasch
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We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
– Joan D. Vinge
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We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
– Barbara Jordan
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We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
– Bill Gates
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We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy.
– Tom Brady
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Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.
– Dee Dee Myers
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War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.
– Michael Morpurgo
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
– A. C. Benson
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Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.
– Peter Schuyler
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Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.
– William Hague
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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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Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you.
– Ron Wyden
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Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.
– Marco Rubio
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True change takes place in the imagination.
– Thomas Moore
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Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.
– Steve Chabot
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Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.
– John Walters
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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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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
– Vera Wang
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To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.
– Maxine Hong Kingston
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To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.
– Samuel Wilson
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To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
– Charles Horton Cooley
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
– Henri Bergson
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
– William James
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To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.
– Tommy Chong
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To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.
– Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
– Walt Disney
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
– Jesse Jackson
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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
– Blaise Pascal
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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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Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.
– Emily Greene Balch
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Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
– Elvis Presley
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Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.
– Tony Campolo
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This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.
– Adolf Galland
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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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This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.
– Mitt Romney
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This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
– Bill Gates
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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
– Lin Yutang
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This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
– Arthur Erickson
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This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace.
– Margaret Chan
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Things don't have to change the world to be important.
– Steve Jobs
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They've been fairly positive, as firm as they could be in regards to the derivatives operations in Montreal. We didn't sense that there was a hesitation about it. But things change.
– Jean Charest
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They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.
– R. Kelly
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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
– Andy Warhol
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There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!
– Jody Watley
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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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There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.
– Marilyn Manson
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There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.
– Cristiano Ronaldo
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There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.
– Christian Bale
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There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
– Albert Camus
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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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There is no question that climate change is happening the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
– David Attenborough
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
– Henry George
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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
– Washington Irving
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There has been a change in attitude, though.
– Daniel Petrie
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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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There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.
– John Boyd Orr
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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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There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can't do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that's not going to change.
– Brett Favre
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There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.
– Marie Osmond
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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 turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?
– Andrea Jung
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There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.
– P. J. O'Rourke
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There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
– Isabelle Adjani
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There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.
– John Mayer
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
– Harri Holkeri
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
– William James
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The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
– Pierre Schaeffer
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The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
– Tom Peters
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The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.
– John P. Kotter
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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
– Bela Lugosi
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The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.
– Gerry Adams
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The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
– Michael Porter
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
– Harrison Ford
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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
– Lech Walesa
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The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.
– Niklas Zennstrom
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The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.
– Giada De Laurentiis
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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
– Tadao Ando
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The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.
– Robert H. Schuller
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
– Adrienne Rich
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The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.
– Eliot Spitzer
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
– R. D. Laing
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The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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