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"But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing."

"But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing."

John Perkins, American Economist

Change, Men, Heart, Result

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"There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around."

"There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around."

Ann Oakley, British Sociologist

Change, Men, Women, Man

28

"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going."

"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going."

Irwin Corey, American Actor

Change, Direction, End

28

"I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean."

"I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean."

Julie Walters, British Actress

28

"For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity."

"For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity."

Joyce Cary, Irish Novelist

Change, Creation, Evil, Insecurity

28

"The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions."

"The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions."

Valentina Tereshkova, Russian Astronaut

Change, Life, Bible, Ideals

28

"A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks."

"A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks."

Todd Gitlin, American Sociologist

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"And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that."

"And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that."

Todd Solondz, American Writer

Change, People, Disguise, Dress

28

"If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for."

"If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for."

Eric Cantor, American Politician

Change, People, President, Public

28

"Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything."

"Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything."

Lucinda Williams, American Musician

Change, Trust, Songs

28

"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."

"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."

Abraham Maslow, American Psychologist

Change, Awareness

28

"I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object."

"I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object."

Meg Tilly, American Actress

Change, Being, Living, Thinking

28

"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."

"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, American Businessman

Change, Work, Nature, Growth

28

"I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are."

"I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are."

Penelope Lively, English Author

28

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

Stephen Hawking, English Physicist

Change, Intelligence, Ability

28

"Most movie stars don't change their look at all."

"Most movie stars don't change their look at all."

Kelly Lynch, American Actress

28

"Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change."

"Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change."

Pete du Pont, American Politician

Change, Power, Leader

28

"I needed some stability, which is why I chose not to change from HRC for this season, which was an option that we had. Apart from being the best team in the world, I also needed some consistency."

"I needed some stability, which is why I chose not to change from HRC for this season, which was an option that we had. Apart from being the best team in the world, I also needed some consistency."

Sete Gibernau, Spanish Athlete

Change, Consistency, Being, Stability

28

"No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me."

"No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me."

Helena Bonham Carter, British Actress

Change, People, Drama, Feeling

28

"I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker."

"I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker."

Ed Koch, American Politician

Change, End, Months, Talk

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"Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge."

"Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge."

Francesco Guicciardini, Italian Historian

Change, Time, Causes, Complaints

28

"So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms."

"So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms."

Ruggiero Ricci, American Musician

Change, First, Freedom, Play

28

"You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change."

"You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change."

Steven Spielberg, American Director

Change, Film, Project

28

"Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters."

"Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters."

Pope Paul VI, Italian Clergyman

Change, Nature, Power, Science

28

"Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time."

"Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time."

Darren L. Johnson, American Author

Change, Time, Actions, Habits

28

"All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart."

"All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart."

Timothy J. Keller, American Author

Change, Truth, Happiness, Wisdom

28

"Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out."

"Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out."

Joseph Campbell, American Author

Change, Revolution, Zeal, Action

28

"Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world."

"Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world."

Gordon Brown, British Politician

Change, Power, Technology, Opportunity

28

"If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone."

"If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone."

Jack Kingston, American Politician

Change, Marriage

28

"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."

"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, Indian Novelist

Change, Idea, Progress, Ideas

28

"The line it is drawnThe curse it is castThe slow one nowWill later be fastAs the present nowWill later be pastThe new order isRapidly fadin'.And the first one nowWill later be lastFor the times they are a-changin'."

"The line it is drawnThe curse it is castThe slow one nowWill later be fastAs the present nowWill later be pastThe new order isRapidly fadin'.And the first one nowWill later be lastFor the times they are a-changin'."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Change, Time, Transformation, Progress

28

"It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job."

"It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job."

Herman Cain, American Businessman

Change, Time, Hope, Job

28

"Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world."

"Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world."

Steve Ballmer, American Businessman

Change, People, Company, Succeed

28

"Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century."

"Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century."

Peter Garrett, Australian Musician

Change, Climate, Climate change, Deep

28

"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."

"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, American Musician

Change, Blood, Cruelty, Want

28

"It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis."

"It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis."

Henry Miller, American Author

Change, Creation, Nature, Reality

28

"In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that."

"In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that."

Jock Sturges, American Photographer

28

"My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just because you can't really change the formula, you can merely try to film it your way."

"My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just because you can't really change the formula, you can merely try to film it your way."

Guy Hamilton, British Director

Change, Film, Formula, Now

28

"The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined."

"The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined."

Christine Todd Whitman, American Politician

Change, Money, Development, Climate

28

"Revolution is not a one time event."

"Revolution is not a one time event."

Audre Lorde, American Poet

Change, Revolution, Truth, Power

28

"I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight."

"I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight."

James Levine, American Musician

Change, Thought, World

28

"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."

"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."

Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet

28

"I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world."

"I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world."

Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian Writer

Change, Dream, Hope, Being

28

"Anyone playing with you is going to change where your direction is."

"Anyone playing with you is going to change where your direction is."

Charlie Hunter, American Musician

Change, Direction

28

"Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs."

"Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs."

Joy Page, American Actress

Change, Life, Beliefs, Mind

27

"Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change."

"Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change."

Valerie Jarrett, American Lawyer

Change, Climate, Climate change, Effort

27

"You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing."

"You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing."

Don Hewitt, American Producer

27

"Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come."

"Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Change, April, May, Spring, Summer

27

"If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction."

"If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction."

Jennifer Granholm, American Politician

Change, Patriotism, Direction, Vote

27

"I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change."

"I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change."

Anne Campbell, English Politician

Change, People, Hope, March

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