“After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.” PeopleUsedGroupsChangedCollegeAmountDegreesFbiSmall GroupsCollege Degree Author:Aaron Tveit
“The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.” ThinkingWayFeelsLevelsGroupsChangedJazzOur TimeNew OrleansInfluentialMeterGrooveFunk Author:John Scofield
“I myself am not comfortable with the notion of secularists congregating in groups, except perhaps for defensive purposes: the last thing a secularist should wish to do is to act like a religion, with its rigid hierarchies, its suppression of divergent opinion, and, above all, its ruthless attempts (now mercifully inhibited by laws) to outlaw "heresy" by brute force. Opinions must be changed, one at a time if necessary, but if there are those who wish to persist in religious belief, they should certainly be allowed to do so.” IfsShouldLastsLawPurposeBeliefForceWishReligiousOpinionGroupsAtheismChangedComfortableNotionPositive AtheismPersistHierarchyRuthlessBrutesHeresyReligious BeliefDivergentSuppressionOutlawBrute Force Author:S. T. Joshi
“In terms of my career, having the gold definitely changed my life. The Olympics are different, you know? They're every four years and it's such a small group.” KnowsYearsDifferentTermCareersFourGroupsChangedGoldFour YearsOlympicsChanged My LifeSmall Groups Author:Kristi Yamaguchi
“When it comes to staying myself - my career isn't my life, it doesn't come home with me. So it's a piece of piss staying grounded and not being changed by it. The same things I've always liked still satisfy me. My team's the same and my group of friends are the same. Of course I'm bowled over by people's response to 21, and when I meet artists I love, it blows my mind. But it baffles me as well. I go home and my best friend laughs at me, rather than going to a celebrity-studded party to rub shoulders with people who know me but who I don't know. I'm Z-list when it comes to that sh**.” PeopleKnowsMindWellsStillsHomeArtistCoursesPartyCareersLaughingPiecesGroupsTeamChangedResponseBlowListsShouldersStayingComing HomeKnow MeGroundedMy Best FriendGroup Of Friends Author:Adele
“I've changed a great deal. I used to be vicious to my parents, just because they objected to me going full-time with a group. Now I can see that all they wanted was the best for me. And we get on great.” I CanWantedUsedParentDealsGroupsChangedUsed To BeViciousI've Changed Author:Peter Ham
“The eighties turned the whole system upside down. They would sign three groups and give them five or ten million dollars each to make three records. Out of those three records maybe one would be a hit. The economy changed, and that's why the music changed.” GivingWholeWould BeThreeMillionsEconomyRecordsFiveGroupsChangedTenDollarsEightyMillion DollarsUpside Down Author:Tony Visconti
“The voice-over world has changed radically in the time that I've been in it. It used to be this rather small, select group of people who did 90 percent of the work. Now it's kind of the reverse: 90 percent of the work is done by this very broad mix of people all over the country, and the guys who used to be the go-to guys are a much smaller percentage now. But there was this massive interest in voice-over as well as in the story, so I think that also added to the film's appeal.” PeopleThinkingWorldWellsKindCountryDoneStoriesFilmUsedGuyVoiceInterestGroupsChangedPercentUsed To BeAppealsMassiveBroadsReversePercentagesSelectVoice Over Author:Fred Melamed
“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
“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
“The United States is pushing as policy division of the world into rival currency camps - the dollar area on the one hand, and the Russia-Chinese-Shanghai Cooperation Organization group on the other, especially now that the IMF has changed its rules. People think that if there are rival currency groupings and national currencies are going bust, we might as well use gold as a safe haven.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWellsStatesUseHandsMightUnitedUnited StatesGroupsHavensPolicyChangedSafeAreasGoldOrganizationDollarsRussiaChinesePushingDivisionCampsCooperationCurrencyRivalsSafe HavenShanghaiImf Author:Michael Hudson
“A friend of mine, Kim Hastreiter, who owns Paper Magazine, she told me, "When you left, it really changed things and you need to do something." So with the encouragement of others, I stayed around and watched, and I saw that all the girls before, such an enormous group of girls of color, all shades, it began to disappear.” NeedsGirlLeftSawsGroupsChangedMinesColorPaperEncouragementDisappearEnormousMagazinesShadeKim Author:Bethann Hardison