- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Change Quotes
On growth, risk and embracing change.
These quotes weigh change from different sides: the risk of a compromised security key, the weight of scientific change on a global scale, and a simple wish to leave things somewhat better than they were found. For more, see our Change The World quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.
- Drastic Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.
- George Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama pursued policies of regime change after 9/11 - with Bush removing al-Qaida's safe haven in Afghanistan and the sadistic anti-American dictator Saddam Hussein in Iraq - but Obama took it a step further and disregarded regional stability as a guiding factor for U.S. policy.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Asking presidential candidates whether they support or would change past foreign policy decisions is the most common line of questioning among members of the media. It's also the most pointless.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'd all like to increase pleasure and minimize pain, but the truth is, suffering, even collective suffering that we're going through, is often the earmark that some real change is happening.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope I helped change people's preconceptions about 'Page 3' girls by appearing on Newsnight and at the Oxford Union debate.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.
- Sorry
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- Nov 07, 2020