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“If you read the story of slavery and see the part that the Uncle Tom played in the plantation, and then you see how the white man today has changed his tactics, but he still occupies the same position, in that same context you find Uncle Tom. He has changed his tactics but he still occupies the same position.”

Ifs Men Stills Stories Today White Position Changed Slavery Toms Uncles White Man Tactics Plantations Uncle Tom

Author:Malcolm X

“It was Thomas Tuchel's first season as coach and I played centrally always. The whole team had a great year, one that I enjoyed a lot. Our style has changed a bit, from trying to score within five seconds to a more calm and in some regard more educated style of play. We try to find the right moment - and then we explode.”

Trying Years Firsts Play Whole Moments Bits Five Team Style Changed Seasons Regard Calm Coaches Educated Enjoyed Score Seconds Right Moment Great Year Year One

Author:Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

“I 've got this weird day that changed my life. I woke up one Wednesday, and my wife's a lawyer, she was off to get on a plane, to go to a business meeting somewhere else, and she said, "I think you might be a father. I have to go to the airport." It was like, six in the morning, and I was like, "That's great - what?!" I called her at noon once her flight landed, to confirm that I hadn't dreamt the thing she told me.”

Thinking Said Might Father Morning Wife Changed Six Meetings My Wife Lawyer Flight Planes Airports Somewhere Else Noon Changed My Life Wednesday Business Meeting Weird Day

Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda

“As I got older, my ambitions changed and I wanted to be a graphic designer. In form five, I did Art for CXC and got a grade 2 at the general proficiency level. I was devastated because I was aspiring for a grade 1. I took a break from art when I went to A level because I could not cope with the disappointment of my Grade 2. But I guess when you love doing something you just can't turn you back on it completely.”

Art Wanted Form Turns Levels Break Five Changed Ambition Disappointment Designer Grades Graphic My Ambition Devastated Graphic Designer Proficiency

Author:St. Lucia

“I changed my hopes to being a singer [when I was a child] and sat around with my hair in my face droning Mac Davis songs. Writing was sort of a last stand. Come to think of it, it was the only "talent" I had that anyone asked for more of.”

Thinking Writing Children Lasts Faces Song Talent Changed Hair Singers Sat Macs Last Stand

Author:Elizabeth Crook

“In fact, someone was telling me that Gladiator was the one film where Ridley Scott didn't take a producer's credit. And it won. But this guy changed the industry twice; with Aliens which was a whole new way of looking at things and Blade Runner that was also a whole new way of looking at things.”

Way Whole Facts Film Guy Changed Industry Credit Producers Aliens New Ways Runners This Guy Blades Blade Runner

Author:Denzel Washington

“When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life." I am really moved by that.”

People Book Lines Changed Moved Changed My Life You Have Changed

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Internet has considerably changed the rules. Some artists do not try to become celebrities: the internet does the job for them and makes them, slowly, famous.... without them wishing to become celebrated.”

Trying Doe Jobs Artist Wish Changed Internet

Author:Richard Clayderman

“I have earned the money and changed the nappies!”

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Author:Bernie Ecclestone

“The impact of racism has changed our look at ourselves because basically racism was meant to make us look unfaithfully at ourselves, and to not treasure our institutions.”

Looks Changed Racism Institutions Impact Treasure

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“Because many people remembered a time when the Republican Party was not so extreme, and hadn't full grasped how much it had changed, people blamed Obama for his failure to get Republicans to agree with him. That blame coloured so much of how the public saw Obama during his presidency. The public thought he was dealing with a brand of Republican leader that just didn't exist any more.”

People Party Leader Saws Changed Republican Agree Blame Extremes Brands Remembered Presidency Republican Party

Author:Jonathan Chait

“My big "double-aha" moment came while anchoring the national news at CBS News. It was at the height of the recession, and on top of the usual negative stories, my newscasts became full of especially heart wrenching stories of people losing their homes, jobs, and retirement savings. Starting the morning off like that could leave even the most optimistic person feeling helpless and hopeless. The lightning bolt came when we changed how we talked about the negative.”

“I think when we get to a place that this is not the story, that everyone's story is a part of the story, then we can say this has changed. Until then, these are steps to change if they're consistent.”

Ifs Thinking Stories Steps Changed Consistent

Author:Ava DuVernay

“In Wall Street now, you have to hide what you're doing. It's more fun when you don't have to do that. But I don't think its sense of purpose has changed at all.”

Thinking Purpose Fun Streets Changed Wall

Author:Michael Lewis

“Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information.”

People Social Media Information Changed Social Media Receiving

Author:Barack Obama

“I hate to sound like an old fuddy duddy, but the game has changed.”

Hate Games Sound Changed I Hate

Author:Raheem Jarbo

“All I can tell you is that Israel's position in the Arab world has changed because they no longer see Israel as their enemy, but as their ally, in their indispensable battle against the forces of militant Islam, either those led by Iran, the Shiites, or - and those led by Daesh - by ISIS, the militant Sunnis.”

World I Can Force Enemy Position Changed Battle Islam Israel Iran Allies Indispensable Isis Militant Arab World

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between us.”

Thinking Loss Changed Aids Epidemics Larry Kramer Aids Epidemic

Author:Kevin Sessums

“I don't want a single state. And I talked about two states where a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes the Jewish state, and I stand by that. I haven't retracted my position; I haven't changed it.”

Want Two States Havens Position Changed Palestinian I Haven't Changed

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.”

Years Mother Changed Perspective

Author:Viola Davis

“My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.”

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Author:Robert Hass

“America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.”

America Changed Months Six Exciting Six Months

Author:Sergio Leone

“[Wham!] totally changed my life. It would be very difficult to know how it changed me as a person; you'd have to ask other people that.”

People Knows Persons Would Be Asks Difficult Know How Changed Changed My Life

Author:George Michael

“I didn't expect to enter into tabloid trivia or anything like that. So I suspect my perspective and a lot of my ideas changed fairly drastically. It was also rather confusing.”

Ideas Changed Perspective Suspects Confusing Tabloids Trivia

Author:George Michael

“It's quite simple: I managed it by doing away with Wham!'s duo image. Obviously, the way I looked changed and that helped a little, but I still have a very pop image. It's a very video-friendly image. I find it a lot more real. It's a lot closer to who I am than the whole Wham! thing.”

Way Littles Stills Real Whole Simple Changed Pops Who I Am Video Friendly Duos

Author:George Michael

“I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good idea for a song. And I sang him the first verse that I had written, and I said it's called "Because You're Mine." And he said, "I Walk The Line" is a better title, so I changed it to "I Walk The Line."”

Writing Firsts Said Ideas Night Song Lines Walks Written Changed Mines Titles Texas Good Ideas Verses One Night

Author:Johnny Cash

“There are many white people in this country who realize that the system itself - as it is constructed - is not so constructed that it can produce freedom and equality for the negro, and the system has to be changed.”

People Country Realizing White Changed Produce Freedom And Equality

Author:Malcolm X

“I hear people say Donald Trump is going to destroy the country. The country's going to be changed forever. I don't know if I agree with that.”

People Ifs Knows Country Forever Changed Trump Agree

Author:Megyn Kelly

“To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.”

Book Real Character Honest Changed Surprise Finished Being Honest Nightingales

Author:Megan Chance

“They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.”

Used Values Changed Unions Rhetoric 1930s Marxist

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I don't think that jealousy and love and hate and anger and all those things have changed in the past 200 years - people just express themselves differently.”

People Thinking Years Past Hate Changed And Love Love And Hate Things Have Changed

Author:Steven Knight

“Microsoft has changed the way people think about computers.”

People Thinking Way Changed Computer Microsoft

Author:Arfa Karim

“Digital content and electronic networks have changed the basic environmental conditionsin which documents are created, distributed, and used.”

Used Changed Environmental Digital Documents

Author:Tom Peters

“DNI director [James] Clapper said as much many, many times, that there is no evidence that any outcome of the election was changed.”

Said Changed Directors Evidence Election Outcomes

Author:John Lewis

“The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.”

Teacher Written One Thing Changed Changed My Life Written Word Reinforcement Positive Reinforcement

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I don't think there's much difference between the two parties. I think whatever their constituents at the moment want, that's what they believe. If their constituents changed, they would change overnight.”

Ifs Thinking Want Believe Two Moments Differences Party Changed Constituents

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure of their societies.”

Country Helping Action Changed Program India Structure Affirmative Action Affirmative Untouchables

Author:Barack Obama

“We're still fighting to make sure that basic anti-discrimination laws are enforced, not just at the federal level, by the way, but throughout government and throughout the private sector? And those are fights that we can win because - and this is where I do believe America has changed - the majority, not by any means 100 percent, but the majority of Americans believe in the idea of nondiscrimination.”

Way Believe Mean Stills Ideas Government America Law Fighting Winning Levels Changed Percent Majority Discrimination Private Sector Anti Discrimination

Author:Barack Obama

“I don't regret the fervor, because I do believe, in the African American community but also for other communities, and I know from talking to people, for communities around the world, the election of an African American to the most powerful office on Earth meant things had changed, and not just in superficial ways. That in some irreversible way the world was different.”

“Today, of course, the world's perception of India has changed tremendously. People understand its role in world affairs; they understand that India is not some backward nation. In fact, it is the fastest growing free-market democracy in the world today, and that says it all.”

People World Facts Today Courses Nations Roles Democracy Growing Changed Perception India Affair Free Market World Today World Affairs

Author:Kabir Bedi

“They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.”

Changed Being In Love

Author:R. Kelly

“It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in museums. That has not changed radically.”

Art School Changed Students Amount Majority Museums Disgusting This Society Art School

Author:Kiki Smith

“It's fascinating to see how things have changed. Basically, every time the US government gets off the soapbox of the Sunday-morning talk shows, the average American's support for the surveillance revelations grows.”

Shows Government Grows Morning Support Changed Average Revelations Fascinating Sunday Surveillance Talk Shows Things Have Changed Sunday Morning Soapbox

Author:Edward Snowden

“The press and free speech landscape has totally changed. There is far less news reporting today. Instead, we have this endless stream of - largely meaningless and speculative - analysis by sideline commentators and self-proclaimed "experts."”

Self Today Changed Speech News Presses Endless Landscape Analysis Experts Streams Meaningless Free Speech Commentators Sidelines News Reporting

Author:Chelsea Manning

“My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it was very British.”

Whole Changed England British Whole Life Accents

Author:Toks Olagundoye

“Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?”

Ifs Years Believe Courses Changed Spending Bother Blogging

Author:Kevin Drum

“Some of the most amazing stories are happening on the global scene. My extraordinary producing partner, Joslyn Barnes, she's just virtually changed my life with the way she constructed this company and how we go about telling the stories we want to tell.”

Way Want Stories Company Changed Scene Happenings Extraordinary Partners Changed My Life Most Amazing

Author:Danny Glover

“We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.”

Men World Term Community Views Changed Trump Praying Hope And Pray

Author:Al Sharpton

“For me, something that's been always really important to me, that's also really served me well in hindsight, is doing different things, trying to cross different genres, and dipping my toes into comedy and drama and action here and there. Fortunately, as I've been working, the industry has also changed where you're able to dip your toes into different mediums, where it's not just independent film and studio film, but now you've got TV, and you're able to do all these different things. For me, it's just a matter of continually pushing myself and challenging myself.”

“People make fun of cybersex, but it's really something to take into account: it is a drama, a split of the human being! The human being can now be changed into some kind of spectrum or ghost who has sex at a distance. That is really scary because what used to be the most intimate and the most important relationship to reality is being split. This is no simulation but the coexistence of two separate worlds.”

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