“People are saying, "Oh my God, Saudi Arabia has changed." It's a contradiction. Do you want us to lead, or do you want us to play a supporting role?” PeopleWantPlayRolesChangedContradictionWant UArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisSupporting Roles Author:Adel al-Jubeir
“Basically for everything that comes out of Five Four, I've come up with the idea or changed it in some way. I'm also working with Putnam Accessory Group, a private label hat manufacturer. I'm in the process of re-branding a line they have called Chuck. It was mostly hats and bags, but I'm adding apparel and eyewear and whatever I feel like adding to turn it more into a brand. I'm supposed to be working with Pharrell on Billionaire Boys Club, but that's on hold.” WayFeelsIdeasTurnsProcessLinesBoysFiveFourGroupsChangedCome UpClubsBrandsLabelsSupposed To BeHatsBagsBrandingBillionaireChuckAccessoriesApparelEyewear Author:Mark McNairy
“I guess I felt straight when I was allowed to get married. Now I feel queerer because I'm not. It's the only thing that's changed. I wouldn't measure it in icon status or how much my demographic has changed, but in the rage I feel, and being not equal.” FeelsFeltChangedEqualMarriedRageIconsDemographics Author:Sia Furler
“I feel like I've always had gay fans, I don't think my dating a woman has changed my demographic, but it certainly changed the way I feel about politics.” ThinkingWayFeelsFansChangedGayDatingDemographics Author:Sia Furler
“I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year.” ThinkingYearsSchoolChangedPersonality Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg
“Each time I changed, it was as if, on purpose, I didn’t want anyone to know too much about me, which of course now I regret, because I closed myself to everything. But it was my way of dealing with things.” IfsKnowsWayWantPurposeCoursesToo MuchChangedRegretMy WayI Regret Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg
“I was asked to give a speech on the Everest swim, and during the Everest swim, I changed. I changed as a person, I honestly did. That mountain changed me, and I gave a speech about it for nine minutes.” GivingPersonsMinutesChangedMountainSpeechHonestlyNineSwimEverest Author:Lewis Pugh
“The rules have changed so dramatically.They are not the Jeb Bush rules of the 90s, they are the reality television rules of this decade and he was not suited for it.” RealityChangedTelevisionDecadesReality Television Author:Chuck Todd
“I will say one thing has changed dramatically which is this Supreme Court vacancy, and it will reshape the race on my side, because I'd rather lose an election than lose the Supreme Court.” SidesLosesRaceOne ThingChangedElectionCourtSupremeSupreme CourtThings Have ChangedVacancy Author:Hugh Hewitt
“I was 32 years old, and I've changed my mind. And the biggest reason that I changed my mind was my seven years as a federal prosecutor. What I learned in those seven years was that we were spending too much time talking about gun laws against law- abiding citizens and not nearly enough time talking about enforcing the gun laws strongly against criminals.” YearsMindReasonEnoughLawTalkingToo MuchChangedCitizensGunSevenSpendingCriminalsSeven YearsAbidingEnough TimeProsecutorI've ChangedLaw Abiding CitizenGun Law Author:Chris Christie
“Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; it is actually important to do songs they're familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I've changed people's perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayImportantDifferentShowsSongAudienceChangedPerceptionFamiliarDifferent WaysClicksI've ChangedCabaret Author:Alan Cumming
“Conservatively, I am saying that social networking has made being in a band more fun, but not necessarily changed how the business works.” MadeFunSocialChangedBandNetworkingSocial NetworkingSocial Network Author:Chris Cain
“I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.” MadeWholeAbilityChangedMaterialsPerspectiveComedian Author:George Carlin
“I still prefer going to the classical writers, the modernists and the nineteenth century writers. Much of what has been done since then has just been repetition. A lot of it is marvelous but the forms haven't changed.” Has BeensStillsDoneFormCenturyHavensChangedMarvelousRepetitionNineteenth Century Author:Pankaj Mishra
“I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred years, and to argue that this "exceptional figure" serves a conservative function in modern culture that bears closer interrogation than it has commonly received.” WritingYearsLittlesBookWantedCultureModernFiguresChangedBearsHundredFunctionConservativeArguingMurdererExceptionalInterrogationModern Culture Author:Richard Marshall
“I can't imagine ever not doing [acting]. I would feel like I would have lost a limb. But I am older now, and sometimes I wonder who I would have been and what about me would have changed had I not had these experiences as a young person” FeelsPersonsHas BeensI CanSometimesYoungLostActingWonderImagineChangedLimbsSometimes I Wonder Author:Jodie Foster
“I think the way the country has changed in part because of the presidency of Barack Obama, I think in part because of what we`ve - the violence that we have seen on our cell phones and our TV sets over the last couple of years. I think Black Lives Matter has helped to force these issues. Women like Sabrina Fulton. We`re having a different conversation in this country right now about race and what it means to really understand your experience is and my experience is.” ThinkingWayYearsMeanDifferentCountryMatterLastsForceBlackRaceIssuesViolenceChangedTvsCoupleRight NowConversationPhonesCellsBarackPresidencyBlack Lives MatterCell PhoneBlack LivesSabrina Author:Killer Mike
“I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.” IfsWritingChangedMentorChanged My Life Author:Rob Roberge
“A lot of my students have been quite notable. Notable in both the personal sense - people who have changed my life - and notable in that many have gone on to enormous success in their writing careers. Whether or not I had a lot to do with those success stories, I'm very proud and happy for my former students getting on the map.” PeopleWritingHas BeensStoriesCareersGoneChangedStudentsProudEnormousFormerMapsNotableChanged My LifeSuccess StoriesFormer Students Author:Rob Roberge
“I had a 90-minute one-man show. I performed it and my life just exploded. Everything - my life just changed. Every writer, director, producer, studio head, movie star - they all wanted it. It was the hottest property since 'Rocky.'” MenShowsWantedStarsMinutesChangedDirectorsPropertyStudiosProducersOne ManMovie StarHottest Author:Chazz Palminteri
“But if the cow is purple, you'd notice it, OK? The thing that's going to decide what gets talked about, what gets done, what gets changed, what gets purchased, what gets built is, is it remarkable? And remarkable's a really cool word 'cause we think it just means neat, but it also means worth making a remark about, and that is the essence of where idea diffusion is going.” IfsThinkingMeanIdeasDoneCausesChangedBuiltEssenceRemarkableCowsPurpleRemarksReally CoolNeatDiffusion Author:Seth Godin
“The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event.” HumansKindCharacterEventsChangedArches Author:Constantin Stanislavski
“There are so many things where I realize, like, simple circumstance, like the simple choice that I made one night to not do that and to do this, one night could have changed everything.” MadeNightChoicesRealizingSimpleChangedCircumstancesOne Night Author:Alicia Keys
“Well, the movie isn't bad. For a while, I even told myself I liked it, even as it missed one mark after another. But in the end, it's shapeless and blandly apolitical, apart from its watered-down feminism. You see, Fey's Kim Baker - changed from Barker - transforms herself from a neophyte reporter, condescended to by male war correspondents, soldiers and Afghan officials, into a hard-charging political animal who speaks the language fluently and parties as hard as men. That's about as edgy as a sitcom.” MenWellsWarEndsHardPoliticalSpeakLanguageAnimalPartyFeminismChangedMarkMalesSoldierOfficialsReportersSitcomKimEdgyBakersChargingAfghanFeyApoliticalMissed OnesPolitical Animals Author:David Edelstein
“And the stigma hasn't really changed that much in 31 years. You are still getting people - it's a shame-based disease. It's based on sexual transmission. And it's still shame-based. And until people feel strong enough and feel loved enough to actually open up and say, listen, I'm HIV-positive, then we are facing an uphill battle.” PeopleFeelsYearsStillsEnoughStrongChangedBattleDiseaseShameStrong EnoughHivStigmaTransmissionHiv PositiveUphill Battles Author:Elton John
“I changed jobs like I changed shirts. It was something I just like to do - I like trying my hand at everything.” TryingHandsJobsChangedShirts Author:Evangeline Lilly
“The Republican Party may be forever reconstituted and changed, which may not be a bad thing either, in and of itself.” MayPartyForeverChangedRepublicanBad ThingsRepublican Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I mean if it wasn't for Earl Scruggs, guys like me wouldn't be doing what we're doing. I mean, he's changed so many people's lives, honestly. I was thinking about all the thousands of people that live in Nashville, like myself, that there's no reason a guy from New York would end up down there if it wasn't for the sound of Earl Scruggs' banjo coming over the airwaves and just changing my life.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanEndsReasonGuySoundNew YorkChangedHonestlyLike MeNo ReasonNashvilleChanging My LifeBanjos Author:Earl Scruggs
“People seem generally happy to see their favorite world come to life, even if it it slightly changed to fit storytelling for television.” PeopleIfsWorldSeemsChangedTelevisionFitStorytelling Author:Jade Hassoune
“My relationship to New York has changed a lot. I feel lucky to live here. A lot of times you walk through the city and don't notice that you're in a really beautiful neighborhood, or that you're passing a beautiful building. It's nice, as an exercise, to keep aware that you're in a really lucky place.” FeelsBeautifulWalksCitiesNiceNew YorkChangedBuildingExerciseLuckyPassingPassingsNeighborhoodReally Beautiful Author:Frankie Cosmos
“I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.” ChangedGentrification Author:Benjamin Clementine
“I don't want to make a show about AA because it's a personal experience for anybody who is a part of that. My relationship with it has changed over the years, and I wanted the show to reflect that in a real way.” WayWantYearsRealShowsWantedChangedPersonal Experiences Author:Will Arnett
“The line changed my life 'cause I thought of some poor woman I hadn't even met walking around the United States or the world not knowing she's going to be beaten up by me and these kids, unborn, not knowing they were going to be born into the family of a child-beater just because I was. So it really did have a great effect on me.” WorldChildrenStatesKidsCausesBornLinesPoorUnitedUnited StatesKnowingEffectsChangedWalkingMetsNot KnowingBeatenUnbornChanged My Life Author:Terry Gross
“What really changed my life was watching the movie Juice and the opening scene - just hearing that record rotate. When I heard that I started getting serious about DJing and making beats and recording myself on the four-track.” RecordsFourHeardChangedSeriousSceneBeatsTrackHearingOpeningJuiceChanged My Life Author:Gonjasufi
“Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can be possible.” ThinkingWayCertainAbilityChangedPersonality Author:Rokia Traore
“I met a lot of amazing people whose lives were changed (for the better) by the power of music. Music gave them strength to get out of abusive relationships or to just pick up a musical instrument and learn to play.” PeoplePlayChangedMetsPicksInstrumentsMusicalAbusivePower Of MusicMusical InstrumentsAmazing PeopleAbusive Relationship Author:Lita Ford
“The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have careers, balance work and family, express their individual autonomy.” PastThreeIndividualCareersRolesChangedBalanceNewsDecadesGood NewsAutonomyOver The PastWomen's RolesIndividual Autonomy Author:Michael Kimmel
“Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.” MeanChangedAreasNever ChangeAvant Garde Author:Jeff Tweedy
“Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.” FactsBeliefChangedEvidenceCurrentsTopics Author:Ramez Naam
“I haven't done it by myself at all. I've been surrounded by a really, really good crew of all ages. I think it's important to have a good age range in the crew so that some of us have experienced that period, or something close to that. But the script, of course, is really inspiring and you just have to trust that. Sometimes on film a glass can be as big as a car, so if the details are right, then they take up as much space on screen as the streets that we didn't have a chance to show as London really has changed since then.” IfsThinkingImportantSometimesDoneShowsBigsAgeFilmCoursesChanceSpaceStreetsCarHavensChangedPeriodsScriptsGlassesDetailsLondonScreensRangeCrewReally Inspiring Author:Lone Scherfig
“I think one of the biggest things that's changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We're getting closer and closer to an artist performance.” ThinkingArtistSongTermChangedPerformancesCrowdsRapport Author:A-Trak
“That's what a DJ is at the end of the day - someone who leads where the music goes. The only thing that's changed is that in America, people have woken up in the last few years and realized it.” PeopleYearsEndsLastsAmericaChangedThe End Of The DayDjs Author:A-Trak
“It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.” ThinkingBookInterestingChanged Author:Nicholas G. Carr
“There are a whole lot of reasons to be very happy that our brains are able to adapt and adapt so readily because we do strengthen and become more efficient at things we do a lot of in changed ways of thinking that we might need.” ThinkingWayNeedsReasonWholeMightAbleBrainChangedEfficientVery HappyWay Of Thinking Author:Nicholas G. Carr
“All of that is constantly operating when you not only learn, but when you recall. But as you recall in a different light, the weights with which something is more probably going to be or not recalled on the next instance, are going to be changed. So you're constantly changing the way, for instance, synapses are going to fire very easily or not so easily.” WayDifferentLightNextFireChangedWeightInstanceRecallsSynapses Author:Antonio Damasio
“I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think.” ThinkingFeminismChangedInternetBlogging Author:Jessica Valenti
“My numbers and my stats were exactly the same. I was doing what the coaches wanted me to do. And what I had been doing up to that point was enough to get me a very well-paying contract with the Vikings. ... In my mind there was only one thing that had changed from the year before and the year I got cut: And that was I started speaking out in support of same-sex rights.” YearsMindWellsEnoughWantedSexNumbersSupportCuttingRightsOne ThingChangedCoachesContractsVikingsSpeaking Out Author:Chris Kluwe
“The world has changed around me. I've been me, and continuously being me in a constant, steadfast way.” WorldWayChangedConstantBeing MeSteadfast Author:Jeremy Scott
“Borlaug would be one figure that I think fundamentally changed India, China, all of Southeast Asia, and gave them the time to be able to build on other things.” ThinkingWould BeAbleFiguresChangedIndiaChinaAsiaSoutheast Asia Author:Juan Enriquez