“The first real thing was Divine as Jackie Kennedy [in Eat Your Makeup]. His mother found the bloody Jackie Kennedy outfit in the boot of his car and said, 'What is this?" and Divine said, "I am Jackie Kennedy!" His mother just changed the subject; she didn't know what to say.” KnowsFirstsSaidRealMotherFoundSubjectsCarChangedDivineMakeupBootsBloodyReal ThingsJackie Author:John Waters
“Rebel Heart changed everything. First of all, it drove me insane - and made me feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety. It made me second guess everything, because suddenly I thought, 'Oh god, everyone's heard all these demos.'” FeelsFirstsHeartMadeHeardChangedAnxietyInsaneOverwhelmingRebelDemos Author:Madonna Ciccone
“When you want to direct someone toward the good, first put him at peace bodily and honor him with words of love. For nothing inclines such a man to shame and induces him to cast of his vice and be changed for the better as do bodily goods and honor, which he sees in you. Then, with love tell him a word or two, and do not be inflamed with anger toward him. Do not let him see any cause of enmity toward you. For love does not know how to lose its temper.” KnowsMenWantInspirationalFirstsDoeTwoChristianCausesLosesReligiousKnow HowChangedHonorDirectShameCastsVicesOrthodoxGoodsTemperEnmityIncline Author:Isaac of Nineveh
“These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!” MenLifeFirstsShowsHandsHeavenLinesSunChangedTaughtKingsLessonsPagesGardenLaborLettersGreenHungerDeedsGoldenSoilImmortalScholarToilPeasantsCharterSturdy Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“There used to be a huge snobbism between the film industry and the television industry. I produced and acted in my first - well way back - but the first thing that I produced and acted in was Sarah, Plan and Tall. And the only place to go at the time for really quality television was Hallmark Hall of Fame. And think how much television has changed since then.” ThinkingWayFirstsWellsFilmUsedQualityPlansChangedTelevisionHugeIndustryFameUsed To BeHallsTallHallmarkFilm IndustryHall Of FamePlaces To GoTelevision Industry Author:Glenn Close
“I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.” YearsFirstsHalfChangedAvailableHatedLicenseCopyrightLinuxUnix Author:Linus Torvalds
“I am a fan of all of the same shows that David just listed. And then I also have a weird obsession with Court TV, which is now truTV - I don't know if you know that. Yeah they changed names. I don't know why they did that but they did. It was a little disconcerting to me at first. But I've gotten over it.” IfsKnowsFirstsLittlesShowsNamesFansChangedTvsYeahCourtObsessionOver It Author:Debra Messing
“The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.” WorldWayMindFirstsMeanWholeBodyFacesMotherSongSoundVisionDoorsHeardAchieveRocksTalentCarChangedListeningShotsFirst TimePopsIntellectYour BodySingersWhole WorldBrokeLimitationRock N RollBobNew WaysDylanSnaresPop Song Author:Bruce Springsteen
“To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes; and this is not the work of a day.” PeopleFirstsCountryInterestChangedIgnorancePrejudiceConvinceRemoveCustomsEnlightening Book:Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ... Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything. If I could, I'd completely rewrite Fargo Rock City, and every sentence would be just slightly different. In all likelihood, most of them wouldn't be any better. Some of them would just be changed back to whatever form they used to be, before I second-guessed myself the first time.” IfsFirstsBookDifferentWould BePastFormUsedReadingCitiesWrittenCrazyRocksChangedFirst TimeSentencesUsed To BeIf I CouldLikelihoodDrive Me CrazyFargo Author:Chuck Klosterman
“But times and tempers are changed. Rebels are everywhere to be found who no longer wish to obey the law without knowing whence it comes, what are its uses, and whither arises the obligation to submit to it, and the reverence with which it is encompassed. The rebels of our day are criticizing the very foundations of society which have hitherto been held sacred, and first and foremost amongst them that fetish, law.” FirstsUseLawFoundWishKnowingChangedFoundationSacredAriseObligationCriticizeRebelTemperReverenceSubmitFetish Author:Peter Kropotkin
“Well, I think there was a time when I first started that there was such a thing called 'a woman's film' and there were certain scripts that women would make. But I think that's changed a lot now. I think that if a woman director walks into a room with a script, it doesn't really matter what the subject matter is, or the genre is, so long as the financiers feel that the woman has the skills to make the film.” IfsThinkingFeelsFirstsWellsLongMatterFilmCertainWalksRoomsSubjectsChangedDirectorsSkillsScriptsGenreSubject MatterGenre IsFinanciers Author:Gurinder Chadha
“First of all, in many Muslim countries women have incredible amounts of freedom, sometimes more than in some countries in Europe. So you cannot just make a generalized statement about women. Second, Islam is not the problem. It's tradition. It's culture. It's age-old mind-sets that need to be changed.” NeedsMindFirstsCountrySometimesProblemAgeCultureChangedAmountEuropeTraditionIslamIncrediblesStatementsMind Set Author:Queen Rania of Jordan
“Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor.” WorldFirstsWarHappenedChangedHeroClassicWar Of The WorldsPerformersComposerSecond World WarConductorClassic Music Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen
“Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.” IfsThinkingKnowsFirstsFeltAliveChangedFirst Time Book:Dreamland Source: Dreamland
“Because if you remember - and people forget this - the first two years of Game of Thrones everybody was going, "I don't know what's going on, but I really like it." And you really didn't know what to make of a lot of people, and now it's changed and people aren't really talking about that. Now it's like you're watching West Wing or Friends, you know the characters and you're like, "What in the world is going to happen?"” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldYearsFirstsTwoCharacterHappensRememberGamesForgetTalkingChangedLike YouWingsWestTwo YearsThrones Author:Alex Graves
“It was a black and white film [at first]. And then it changed to colour film, and I was surprised and culture shocked when I was six or seven years old. And then HD, then 3D now. So what's going? What's coming next? It's so exciting.” YearsFirstsFilmCultureNextBlackWhiteChangedSixExcitingSevenColourBlack And WhiteShockedSeven Years Author:Hiroyuki Sanada
“The Obama administration has admitted that under Obamacare, you might not be able to keep your doctor. At first the president guaranteed you'd be able to keep your doctor, and now they're saying you 'might' be able to. Today Obama changed his slogan from 'Yes we can' to 'Perhaps we could try. Can't promise anything.'” TryingFirstsMightTodayAblePresidentChangedPromiseDoctorsAdministrationSlogansObamacareYes We Can Author:Jay Leno
“9/11 was my first day teaching at Harvard University. My classes were all canceled and I got back to town two days later. I'm one of those people who doesn't think the world has changed any at all since 9/11. It just seemed to be almost inevitable, something like that. That's one of the reasons why the backstory of Fay Grim goes all the way back into the '80s. I was trying to sketch out the continuity of all this hanky-panky between the security agencies of the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayTryingFirstsTwoReasonClassTeachingSecurityChangedTownsUniversityInevitableReason WhyAgency80sContinuityHarvardGrimTwo DaysHarvard University Author:Hal Hartley
“When I first started, you could go to a college campus and it was not cool to wear a country artist's shirt on campus. It was taboo, and there was a stigma involved. In the time from then till now, I'm amazed at how much things have changed. It's young now, it's cool, it's hip” FirstsCountryYoungArtistChangedCollegeInvolvedHipsShirtsAmazedTabooStigmaCampusThings Have ChangedCollege CampusCountry Artist Author:Eric Church
“I think hip-hop has changed. When I first came out, hip-hop was more of a kind of way to learn about new places, new things. What are kids doing on the East coast, what are kids doing here. Then it left that and is like a party mode. I think it's going back to people wanting to get messages and wanting to learn things from the music.” PeopleThinkingWayFirstsKindKidsLeftPartyChangedMessagesHip HopEastHipsHopsNew ThingsCoastNew PlacesEast Coast Author:Ice Cube
“Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.” MindFirstsPlayWantedSongChangedHarmonicas Author:Paul McCartney
“Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, 'If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn't have any material.' He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.” IfsFirstsSaidHomeChallengesChangedColorMaterialsTomorrowI RealizedComedianCrutchesYou Changed Author:Bill Cosby
“I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.” FirstsJobsNamesBornImagineChangedTvsBrokenArmsTheaterTelephonesAutographsSigningMutinyBogart Author:Michael Caine
“I started over again with an image: Nothing goes right. Then when The Godfather came out, all I heard was, Show respect. With me, you show respect. So I changed the image to I don't get no respect. I tried it out in Greenwich Village. I remember the first joke I told: Even as a kid, I'd play hide and seek and the other kids wouldn't even look for me. The people laughed. After the show, they started saying to me, Me, too - I don't get no respect. I figured, let's try it again.” PeopleTryingFirstsLooksPlayShowsKidsRememberHeardChangedJokesVillageLaughedNo RespectHide And SeekShow RespectGreenwichGreenwich Village Author:Rodney Dangerfield
“By declaring yourself a leader, you're taking initiative and moving into a role of influence in a lively and vital network that's changing the world. We're changing the world, first by changing ourselves and then by touching the world as changed beings. We believe the change in us catalyzes change in others. So in changing the world, we're choosing to be the change we wish to see in the world. By taking on this leadership role, you are choosing to be the change too.” WorldFirstsBelieveMovingWishLeaderRolesInfluenceChangedChanging The WorldTouchingInitiativeLivelyDeclaringLeadership Roles Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.” FirstsChildrenTwoResultsFourChangedHugeOur Children Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.” IfsKnowsGivingFirstsLooksNextGoneMinutesHavensChangedGiving UpFirst TimeStudiosPianoThrill Author:Elton John
“My first instrument was the drums. Not quite sure why I quit and changed to guitar, but I'm sure my parents might have convinced me that the guitar was way better.” WayFirstsMightParentChangedInstrumentsGuitarConvincedQuittingI Quit Author:Jill Sobule
“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
“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
“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
“My name's Todd but I changed it in the first grade because there was another kid named Todd and I didn't understand that that was possible.” FirstsKidsNamesChangedGrades Author:T. J. Miller
“What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.” WayWantLoveNeedsFeelsFirstsLittlesDoeDreamTogetherGirlWinningChangeLosesChangedHairClothesRainYour DreamsLittle ThingsWant SomethingJerkPossessingGumWatercolorsYou Changed Author:Jeff Melvoin
“I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.” WritingFirstsBookWorstChangedSickTwentiesIllnessDecadesAcceptedExoticChanged My Life Author:Judy Blume
“I changed my major to English and I went off to Fort Collins. And within the first couple of weeks, I noticed that they were having auditions for a production in their theater department. They were going to stage Jean Anouilh's Becket, which was a film I loved, with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton. So I went down and auditioned, and I got the role. I got the Peter O'Toole part. So here I was, a 19-year-old playing King Henry.” YearsFirstsFilmRolesWeekStageChangedCoupleKingsMajorsTheaterDown AndProductionsDepartmentPeterAuditionsFortsKing Henry Author:Keith Carradine
“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.” IfsInspirationalShouldFirstsChildrenWishParentChangeFamilyLearningWonderfulChildhoodChangedParentingParenthoodChild AbuseThings ChangeMemories Dreams ReflectionsFamily ValuesChildren And ParentsUnschoolingParent ChildI Have ChangedNew Parents Author:Carl Jung
“Let's be very clear first off. Nothing has changed about Donald Trump's position on dealing with illegal immigration.” FirstsClearPositionChangedTrumpImmigrationIllegalIllegal ImmigrationThings Have Changed Author:Mike Pence
“In the first place, I don`t think [Donald] Trump has changed that much from what em. I never took him serious highway this [immigration policy].” ThinkingFirstsPolicyChangedSeriousTrumpImmigrationEmsHighwaysImmigration Policy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You can meet people who are really beautiful. Then, when you see them angry for the first time, all of a sudden they're not beautiful anymore. They didn't just step into the other room and have plastic surgery; they're still the same physically. It's just that something inside of them has changed. They're no longer attractive.” PeopleFirstsStillsBeautifulRoomsStepsChangedFirst TimeAngryAttractivePlasticSurgeryPlastic SurgeryReally Beautiful Author:Rob Lowe
“I think we came out and got the first goals fairly easily and fairly quickly. All of a sudden they started to change the defense and they changed things up on us and I thought we got a little too comfortable. I give their goalie credit, he made some very good saves, but we just wanted to score. We changed some things halfway through the fourth quarter and we were able to generate some shots. I think for most of the year we've been good on offense. We haven't really struggled like that. We knew coming into the season that we'd have to share the ball on offense and really be efficient.” ThinkingGivingYearsFirstsLittlesMadeAbleWantedGoalShareHavensChangedComfortableShotsSeasonsBallsVery GoodCreditDefenseScoreQuartersEfficientFourthOffenseHalfwayLacrosseGoaliesFourth Quarter Author:John Desko
“The music industry has changed drastically and that damages young artists. They don't have the same support system that we had. They wanted us to be happy. Today I would have been dropped after the first flop.” FirstsHas BeensTodayWantedYoungArtistSupportChangedIndustryDamageMusic IndustrySupport SystemsYoung Artists Author:Cliff Richard
“The reality is, the way we've used phones and the amount that we've used phones has changed radically in the past five years. When phones were first marketed in the 1990s, it cost, for car phones, $3000 to buy a phone and the average person did not use it that much. They were very, very expensive.” WayYearsFirstsPersonsUseRealityPastUsedFiveCarChangedAmountCostAveragePhonesFive YearsExpensiveAverage Person Author:Devra Davis
“I feel like that [the role in Star Trek] is a prime example of, yeah, I got that role and it was awesome, because it changed a lot for me professionally, but then creatively, it became a whole other thing, with J.J. [Abrams] and Chris [Pine] and the people I got to know. Now I just feel like it's our jobs to be open and to keep moving stuff forward. I don't know what that means. This is the first time in a long time that I have no idea what's happening next. As scary as that is, and as anxiety-provoking as that can still be, it's also really exciting.” PeopleKnowsFeelsFirstsMeanLongStillsIdeasWholeJobsMovingNextStarsStuffRolesExampleChangedAnxietyLong TimeHappeningsFirst TimeExcitingYeahScaryNo IdeaPrimeProvokingKeep MovingAbram Author:Zachary Quinto
“I have been acting for almost 20 years now. At first it changed in my focus and how much I wanted to act. When I was younger, it was so much fun, and I really wanted it, but it was not competitive. Then I became a teenager and it became kind of competitive and not as much fun. I pulled back and I got lazy about it, where I was like, "Yeah, I guess, I'll do small parts in cool movies," but I wasn't really trying to say anything.” TryingYearsFirstsKindHas BeensWantedFunActingFocusChangedYeahTeenagerLazySay AnythingSmall PartsCool Movie Author:Alia Shawkat
“America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people.” PeopleYearsFirstsStoriesAmericaFourChangedHundredYears AgoOriginalsBoatImmigrantsTurkeysPilgrim Author:Andrew Lam
“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.” TryingYearsFirstsPlayWholeMomentsBitsFiveTeamStyleChangedSeasonsRegardCalmCoachesEducatedEnjoyedScoreSecondsRight MomentGreat YearYear One Author:Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
“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."” WritingFirstsSaidIdeasNightSongLinesWalksWrittenChangedMinesTitlesTexasGood IdeasVersesOne Night Author:Johnny Cash
“The first time I watched [Keith] Olbermann, his opening monologue, I completely changed the way I approached my radio show.” WayFirstsShowsChangedFirst TimeRadioOpeningMonologuesKeith Author:Jay Mohr
“The reality is, if you go to the library and read biographies, thousands of people have changed, radically changed. St. Augustine was one of them. He lived a terrible a life for the first 33 years, and then he radically changed.” PeopleIfsYearsFirstsRealityChangedTerribleLibraryBiographiesAugustine Author:Gary Chapman