“I remember working with Jackie Chan on Shanghai Noon [2000], and when we were working on the script, I thought that my character thought about being an outlaw the way a kid today would think about being a rock star, as a way to impress girls. So it was just kind of a funny idea, but once we had that idea, it changed the character and made it something that was funnier to me to play.” ThinkingWayKindMadeIdeasPlayCharacterKidsTodayRememberGirlStarsRocksChangedScriptsMade ItImpressRock StarNoonOutlawJackieShanghaiImpress A Girl Author:Owen Wilson
“My life has changed financially and I have a name, but I try to never forget people on my journey.” PeopleTryingNamesForgetJourneyChangedNever ForgetMy JourneyLife Has Changed Author:Riccardo Tisci
“How has podcasting changed things? A lot of people ask me if I feel I should be more famous.” PeopleIfsFeelsShouldAsksChangedAsk MePodcasting Author:Paul F. Tompkins
“Social networking, I believe, has completely changed the relationship between band-members and fans.” BelieveI BelieveSocialFansChangedBandMembersNetworkingSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkBand Members Author:Beau Bokan
“I want to tell everybody that you won't hear me trying to pop bottles in the club and all that kind of stuff. It's just not me and I think as long as you stay within your element and your age bracket, sure you're going a couple of young folks and teens, but that's not who I'm focused on. I'm really not. I love whoever supports, but I'm just not going to try and go back there because times have changed. If you don't move with the times, you'll get left off. I'm trying to change with the times.” IfsThinkingWantTryingKindLongAgeMovingYoungLeftStuffSupportChangedCoupleElementsFolksClubsPopsFocusedBottlesTeensTrying To ChangeTimes Have ChangedBrackets Author:Ginuwine
“It was fun to be in a scene again with [my wife LaTanya Richardson]. We used to do plays together all the time. We hadn't really worked together since Losing Isaiah [1995]. That was kind of early on in both of our cinematic careers. Things have changed a little bit since then.” KindLittlesPlayTogetherUsedFunBitsCareersWifeChangedSceneLittle BitLosingMy WifeCinematicThings Have Changed Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“The Replacements definitely changed my life, I think they're just amazing. The thing that blew me away [a band like that] is that you'll get into a band from hearing one interesting song and then you'll realise that you've got seven or eight albums to listen to afterwards and every single one of them is a great record. The Replacements definitely changed my life.” ThinkingSongInterestingRecordsChangedBandSevenAlbumsEightHearingRealisingChanged My LifeReplacements Author:Ryan Jarman
“This was a very progressive group of clergy who foresaw the race riots that were going to take place when Dr. King started helping the local civil rights community push for open housing. They were sort of hoping against hope that we could educate kids in a way that could counter some of the racist messages they were imbibing at home. I don't know whether we did any good, but it changed my life in every single way.” KnowsWayHelpingHomeKidsCommunityRaceRightsGroupsChangedKingsMessagesLocalsCivil RightsRacistProgressiveEducateDrsHousingRiotChanged My LifeClergyImbibingRace Riots Author:Sara Paretsky
“So, it just seemed like it happened naturally. We nailed our live show to some extent in a year or about a year and a half, maybe just a year of playing songs pretty much around L.A. then we went and scheduled a mini-tour up-state on the West Coast and that's when the whole Rough Trade [Records] thing started happening and from there, things just happened so quick. It changed really quickly.” YearsStatesWholeShowsSongHalfRecordsHappenedChangedHappeningsTradeWestRoughCoastWest Coast Author:Theresa Wayman
“We haven't started playing it live yet but we're going to. And then 'Warpaint' is a song that's really, really close to me because it's actually - we've had that song for many years now and it's changed so many times, it's been through every reincarnation of our band with every drummer, with sometimes with me playing drums, it was when we were a three-piece, every incarnation of the band that we've had we have played that song.” YearsSometimesSongThreePiecesHavensChangedBandReincarnationIncarnationDrummerPlaying Drums Author:Theresa Wayman
“I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just so sad, as three days before, perhaps the mother was still taking the baby around to play and to drink water. In her mind, she probably was thinking they had a life of decades to be together. However, the poaching happened so fast and everything collapsed. Without the protection of the mother, the baby elephant is likely to die too. That moment changed me.” ThinkingMindStillsPlayMomentsTogetherMotherDiesThreeWaterNaturalSawsHappenedChangedBabyDrinkProtectionDecadesThat MomentReservesElephantsFootprintKenyaSo SadDrink WaterPoaching Author:Li Bingbing
“Throughout history, the human species has struggled to some extent. It's part of us, as human beings, to provide better for our children and to try to do all these different things. The expectations have changed drastically, and thank God they have. Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.” WorldTryingHumansChildrenDifferentHuman BeingsRightsChangedExpectationsOur ChildrenSpeciesDifferent ThingsThank GodHuman Species Author:Patricia Arquette
“I studied engineering at MIT. There, the late, great physicist Philip Morrison introduced me to the idea that, in any system, there exists the inevitability that an event will occur which is completely unrelated to anything that preceded it. It completely changed my perception of "impossible."” IdeasImpossibleEventsChangedLatePerceptionEngineeringPhysicistInevitabilityPhilipMit Author:Tohoru Masamune
“Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.” ValuesChangedFootballInspirePlatformsAggressionChanged My Life Author:Dwayne Johnson
“The credit belongs to those of us who are actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. We strive valiantly and sometimes there's the triumph of achievement but at the worst, we fail, but at least we fail while daring greatly." That has really changed my life. Profoundly changed my life.” SometimesFacesFailingBloodWorstChangedAchievementStriveCreditDustTriumphSweatDaringArenaChanged My LifeDaring Greatly Author:Brené Brown
“I think sometimes the hardest obstacle is yourself. I can certainly be my own worst critic and oftentimes forget to enjoy the here and now. Physically, the hardest obstacle I have overcome was severe back issues. [This] resulted in finally getting surgery to replace four discs, which changed my life back to active - which is how I am happiest.” ThinkingI CanSometimesEnjoyMy OwnForgetIssuesFourWorstChangedOvercomingCriticsObstaclesActiveHardestSurgerySevereHere And NowChanged My LifeDiscs Author:Tricia Helfer
“Grateful that it brought me to a point of really seeing myself and really seeing where I was imbalanced, and really seeing it was a message from the Divine that changed my life.” SeeingChangedDivineMessagesGratefulChanged My Life Author:Brad Willis
“The transitions will be tough because of the nature of a triathlon, you have to get changed and dry off or whatever. But this is going to be even harder because I have to do all that, then speak on the radio, do an interview with local telly, do some press and some interviews.” SpeakChangedToughHarderPressesRadioLocalsInterviewsDryTransitionTriathlon Author:Greg James
“I can't see a problem with imposing fines on drivers who violate traffic safety laws. The speed limit is the speed limit. A red light means stop. These things haven't changed since people got their driver's licenses.” PeopleMeanI CanProblemLightLawHavensChangedFineLimitsRedSafetySpeedDriversTrafficLicenseImposingRed LightsSpeed LimitsLicenses Author:Robert James Thomson
“I was out in California over the holidays and I was working with some photographs I took out there just now, actually, which were all different photographs of the sunset. They're really interesting because El Niño has changed the cloud configuration, not only the sea, but also the whole makeup of the clouds, the sunset, and the different gradations of color and tonality. So it'll be interesting to work with that.” DifferentWholeInterestingSeaChangedColorPhotographCloudsCaliforniaSunsetHolidayMakeupReally InterestingConfiguration Author:Michelle Stuart
“There wasn't reparative therapy in Corinth. So in this passage I think people came to Christ and experienced a new life in him apart from the therapeutic process. But when it comes to someone pointing to this passage and saying homosexuals changed, well, I'm not sure that's what that passage is referring to.” PeopleThinkingWellsProcessChristChangedTherapyNot SurePassagesHomosexualNew LifePointingReferringTherapeutic Author:Alan Chambers
“I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life. I am pursuing Christ wholeheartedly 100 percent. I don't need a theologian or a set of man-made beliefs to guide me in my daily life. I'm grateful for people's opinions but I choose to surrender and to serve Christ and Christ alone and in that my life has changed.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMenWantNeedsBelieveLooksMadeBeliefI BelieveChristOpinionChangedPercentGratefulGuidesSurrenderDaily LifeTheologianWholeheartedlyGuide MeLife Has ChangedChrist Alone Author:Alan Chambers
“My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be. And that's a wonderful thing and that's what we will always offer at Exodus.” DesireBeliefWonderfulChangedOffersWonderful ThingsAlignmentExodus Author:Alan Chambers
“If you change a location opportunistically, to gain a day on the schedule, which I did more than once, you have to re-rig everything creatively on the spot, and you not only have to be able to do that, but do it with great fluency to keep moving. I used to go apeshit when anything got changed in a film but you live and learn, and I have learned.” IfsAbleFilmMovingUsedChangedGainsSpotsI Have LearnedLocationSchedulesKeep MovingLive And LearnRigsFluencyYou Live And Learn Author:William Monahan
“The company [Microsoft] really has to chart a direction in mobile devices. Because if you're going to be mobile-first, cloud-first you really do need to have a sense of what you're doing in mobile devices. I had put the company on a path. The board as I was leaving took the company on a path by buying Nokia, they kind of went ahead with that after I told them I was going to go. The company, between me and the board, had taken that sort of view. Satya, he's certainly changed that. He needs to have a clear path forward. But I'm sure he'll get there.” IfsNeedsFirstsKindViewsCompanyPathTakenClearChangedLeavingCloudsBoardsBuyingDevicesMobileMicrosoftNokiaSatya Author:Steve Ballmer
“My point of view actually on artificial intelligence, which ties into the nature for humans constantly looking into the reasons for why we exist and why consciousness exists changed during the making of Chappie. And I'm not actually completely sure that humans are going to be capable of giving birth to A.I. in the way that films fictionalize it.” WayGivingHumansReasonFilmViewsConsciousnessChangedBirthCapablePoint Of ViewTiesArtificial IntelligenceArtificialGiving Birth Author:Neill Blomkamp
“One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasnÂ’t there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.” WorldUsedFatherGoneStudyChangedParticularMountainFindingsMy FavoriteForestsSpotsStreamsApplesCanadaSparksSwimmingGraduatesFinancingOrchardWorld Bank Author:Vandana Shiva
“This is God's standards [against same-sex marriage and abortions]. And just because public opinion may have changed or somebody takes a poll - this is just one of the issues. And it doesn't matter what people say or what people think. It doesn't matter about the opinion polls. It's what God says, and God says this is a sin. And it's a sin against him, and he's going to judge sin.” PeopleThinkingMayMatterSexSinOpinionIssuesChangedJudgingStandardsJust OneAbortionPublic OpinionPollsOpinion Polls Author:Franklin Graham
“You know, it's weird. It's - it hasn't really changed my life in any kind of way that I can measure. I mean, it's obviously such an insanely amazing thing. You know, none of my other records I've ever had before even broke into the top 100.” KnowsWayKindMeanI CanRecordsChangedBrokeAmazing ThingsChanged My LifeTop 100 Author:Mark Ronson
“Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really quite dramatically. There was a newspaper article here about a month ago that got big headlines which said that civilian deaths from terrorism were down something like 80 percent or 90 percent from their peak of two or three years ago.” PeopleYearsWellsSaidTwoBigsThreeNumbersGoneOne ThingChangedMonthsPercentYears AgoTerrorismTerroristNewspapersArticlesThree YearsPakistanCiviliansHeadlinesCivilian Deaths Author:Mohsin Hamid
“think that the external situation has also changed somewhat. The reduction of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan has, in a sense, reduced how inflamed the situation on the Pakistani border regions was and is.” ThinkingForceSituationChangedBordersRegionsAfghanistanReductionNato Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made a miserable mess of it.” PeopleThinkingMindWellsMadeChangedThirdsAwfulMessMiserableRepublic Author:Robert O. Paxton
“I think in Baroque music, especially in the case of Bach, what really transformed Bach's musical language, what changed it for him was hearing Vivaldi, hearing the sort of manipulation of small cells of information and patterns in order to generate sort of huge blocks of harmony.” ThinkingOrderLanguageCasesInformationChangedHugeHarmonyMusicalPatternsHearingBlockCellsManipulationTransformedBaroqueBaroque MusicVivaldi Author:Mahan Esfahani
“There's no doubt that Boko Haram has been driven from many of its strongholds in northeastern Nigeria. Now, President Muhammadu Buhari says technically, we have won the war. Those in the know say but technically, the army is still losing the battle because Boko Haram has changed tactics. Instead of now holding territory as it used to and calling this territory its own, now it is resorting to guerrilla tactics, hit-and-run raids and especially suicide bombings.” KnowsHas BeensStillsWarRunningUsedPresidentDoubtChangedCallingBattleLosingArmySuicideDrivenNo DoubtTerritoryTacticsBombingNigeriaGuerrillasStrongholdsBoko HaramHaram Author:Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
“He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He was uninterested in being a first-tier artist! He wanted to be, you know, a god. Someone who completely changed the...he wanted to be Zeus with the lightning bolt and nothing less would have satisfied him.” KnowsFirstsSaidWantedArtistNamesChangedSatisfiedBe YouLightningDocumentariesBoltsZeusWarholUninterestedLightning Bolts Author:Bob Colacello
“My beliefs really haven't changed since I was in government. If anything, it gave me appreciation for how challenging it is for the government to balance and play the roles that it needs to, both wanting to keep the nation secure, both having the rights to collect extensive intelligence overseas, less so within the country.” IfsNeedsCountryPlayGovernmentBeliefNationsChallengesRolesRightsHavensChangedBalanceAppreciationSecure Author:Rod Beckstrom
“The place has had a super-conflicted relationship to its mission. In 1956, it opened as the Museum of Contemporary Crafts. Then in 1986 it had a midlife crisis and changed its name to the American Craft Museum. Then in 2002 the name changed again, this time to the Museum of Arts and Design. Maybe in 2025 the place will be called the Designatorium. The big problem with a museum of craft and design is that all art has craft and design.” ArtProblemBigsNamesDesignChangedCrisisMissionsContemporaryCraftsMuseumsBig ProblemsMidlifeMidlife Crisis Author:Jerry Saltz
“It ends a 40-year ban on exporting U.S. oil. It's changed - it's included in its cyber-security legislation - that says to private companies, hey, if you share with us your data on your cyber-attacks, your potential cyber-attacks, we'll give you liability protection. And they authorized a health care program for 9/11 responders for 75 years to cover the length of their lifespans.” IfsGivingYearsEndsCareCompanyShareSecurityChangedProgramProtectionOilHeyDataHealth CareLengthLegislationBansLiabilityCyberCyber SecurityExportingCyber Attacks Author:Susan Davis
“Tony Gonzalez is one of the best ever and changed the way tight ends have transitioned themselves from college to the NFL. He can do a little bit of everything. He's a guy who you want to model yourself after.” WayWantLittlesEndsGuyBitsCan DoChangedCollegeLittle BitModelsNflBest Ever Author:Virgil Green
“Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific revolution is less than a hundred years. And computers only a few decades! We've changed so much. It's amazing, the speed of changes.” YearsHumansLinesHuman BeingsRecordsWrittenChangedRevolutionCoupleThousandComputerDrawsHundredSpeedDecadesThousand YearsScientific Revolution Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over what it should be, and it has changed. It's not precise like a diagnosis of tuberculosis would be very precise.” ShouldWould BeHalfChangedDoctorsAutismCommitteesPreciseDiagnosisProfileOther HalfAdhdBickeringDyslexiaTuberculosis Author:Temple Grandin
“Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made.” ThinkingWayMadeStoriesFilmChangedIndustryMusic IsMusic IndustryGreat FilmJagger Author:Olivia Wilde
“You will not find that I ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation that I ever received.” ViewsChangedVoteDonation Author:Hillary Clinton
“Jesse Owens had to be a very strong person. There were a lot of protests, but I think that he knew, despite the pressure on both sides, the pressure to go and the pressure not to go, he had to do it for himself. Unknowingly, he changed the world and broke so many barriers by doing so, by being a leader.” ThinkingWorldPersonsStrongSidesLeaderChangedPressureDespiteBrokeBarriersProtestVery StrongBoth SidesBeing A LeaderStrong Person Author:Stephan James
“What happened in the 80's was that all the men died of AIDS. That was a particularly depressing time because so many people passed away and it was a very desperate and lonely time, so I think a lot of people felt that we were somehow, unreceived. Not only by the disease but also by the public image of the disease. It really gave homophobia a real shot in the arm and changed the way people viewed gays, queers. It became an entirely different atmosphere.” PeopleThinkingMenWayDifferentRealFeltHappenedChangedHe ManArmsGayDiseaseShotsLonelyDiedAidsAtmosphereDesperateDepressingHomophobiaPassed AwayPublic Image Author:Margaret Cho
“I was lucky. I always had really great friends in my personal life, people always just knew who I was. It wasn't until I was in show business where that sort of changed or shifted at first. I have always had a great support network. I have had a lot of really wonderful, close friends.” PeopleFirstsShowsSupportWonderfulChangedLuckyReally GreatPersonal LifeShow BusinessClose FriendsGreat Friend Author:Margaret Cho
“The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people say, you know, "It's better now, it's all changed, it's all different," it's not, it hasn't. Not yet.” PeopleIfsKnowsHas BeensDifferentCharacterChangedFemaleMalesFemale CharactersRatiosBetter Now Author:Geena Davis
“More than half of Americans have changed religions at least once in their adult lifetime. This is - the rate of religious conversion here is much, much higher than it is anywhere in Europe, for example.” ReligiousHalfExampleChangedHigherAdultsEuropeLifetimeRateConversion Author:Susan Jacoby
“There will be no breakout. When we changed for the single, we never specified what the breakout for sales to streams were.” ChangedStreams Author:Cary Sherman
“The touring makes you take a step back. It makes you realize how your lifestyle has changed.” RealizingStepsChangedLifestyleTouring Author:Garance Dore