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Luis Figo
"When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on."
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Chief Joseph
"I know that my race must change."
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Heraclitus
"Change alone is unchanging."
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Kenneth Kaunda
"The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change."
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Horace
"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune."
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Winston Churchill
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
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Robert Mugabe
"Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change."
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Charles Kettering
"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."
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Giordano Bruno
"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
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Ahmed Yassin
"Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield."
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Muhammad Yunus
"My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see."
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Elizabeth Bowen
"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."
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Viktor E. Frankl
"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves."
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Miguel Angel Ruiz
"Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret."
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Gael Garcia Bernal
"You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it."
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit."
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Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
"I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet."
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Shakira
"I'm Colombian and nothing will change that."
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Soren Kierkegaard
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
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Abu Bakar Bashir
"What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?"
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Joe Eszterhas
"I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen."
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Ferdinand Marcos
"There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them."
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Bonnie Tyler
"Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country."
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Augusto Roa Bastos
"The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing."
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Emma Goldman
"The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being."
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
"We will not change in matters of policy until such time as dialogue has begun."
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Baldwin Spencer
"We, too, must change as circumstances evolve."
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Ibrahim Babangida
"Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people."
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Paul Kagame
"There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming."
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Gianni Agnelli
"Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again."
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Harri Holkeri
"What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching."
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Haile Gebrselassie
"I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner."
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Boutros Boutros Ghali
"The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today."
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Kyle Schmid
"This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives."
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Naguib Mahfouz
"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."
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Jack Welch
"Change before you have to."
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Ernest Bevin
"The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him."
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Will Smith
"Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there."
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Vanessa Hudgens
"Right now, I do not like kids at all. I mean, I love my fans and everything, but when you have kids following you around all day, it's like, "Ugh, kids!" Maybe that will change when I get older."
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Abdallah II
"In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change."
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Lech Walesa
"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being."
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Joan Armatrading
"I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for."
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Emma Goldman
"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action."
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
"It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change."
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Olga Korbut
"And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old."
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Wilma Mankiller
"A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see."
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John P. Kotter
"The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades."
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Brian Eno
"It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene."
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George Gurdjieff
"Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine."
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Stanley Tucci
"I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day."
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