925 private quotes tagged change

“The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.” — Salman Rushdie

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“Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'” — David Hockney

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“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” — Miriam Beard

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“Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.” — Ang Lee

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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 think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.” — Tori Amos

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“Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.” — Richard Wagner

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“Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.” — Liam Neeson

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“When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.” — Tony Parsons

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“When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“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

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“And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?” — Emma Thompson

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“When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.” — Carly Fiorina

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“It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.” — Charles Kuralt

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“An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.” — Robin Quivers

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“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

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“Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?” — Simon Mainwaring

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“I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.” — Kesha

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“I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.” — Sidney Poitier

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“Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.” — Danica McKellar

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“The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.” — John Podhoretz

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“We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.” — Gael Garcia Bernal

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