“No man is really changed by success. What happens is that success works on the man’s personality like a truth drug, bringing him out of the closet and revealing… what was always inside his head.” MenHappensChangedHe ManPersonalityDrugClosetsRevealing Author:Albert Goldman
“I think I came along at an opportune time. I don't know if that would happen anymore, because the whole way of doing business in Hollywood has changed.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWholeHappensChangedHollywood Author:Sylvester Stallone
“[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.” MenWorldHappensBeliefFictionWrittenChangedScience FictionConvictionIntellectIngredientsIndispensable Author:James Gunn
“I would love to see what's going to happen with science fiction with peoples' heads, because we still have people running around in the year 2050 or 2100 or 2200 and they have incredible technology and you see the effects: laser beams and rays and beaming down and beaming up. Incredible technical things happening, but everybody is still running around jealous, fighting, whacking, cheating. There's got to be something going on! Some kind of change. I'd like to see something starting to happen in that area, with the psychology of the human being and how that changed.” PeopleYearsHumansKindStillsHappensRunningFightingHuman BeingsFictionTechnologyPsychologyEffectsChangedHappeningsAreasDown AndScience FictionIncrediblesStartingThings HappenCheatingJealousRaysBeamLasers Author:Leslie Nielsen
“A good film to me is like lightning in a bottle. I used to think that meant hit and run. But then I've changed my definition about what lightning in a bottle means. I think it means that you wait for that surprising moment that you really didn't expect would happen, as good as it may have gone in rehearsal.” ThinkingMayMeanMomentsHappensRunningFilmUsedWaitingGoneChangedDefinitionsBottlesSurprisingLightningRehearsalGood FilmsI've Changed Author:Don Scardino
“My business in the beginning was very lawless and the more trouble I go into, the more the promoters liked me back then. I was on the front page for doing something wrong, the arena was full. Then, all of a sudden, everything changed somehow and they put rules in. You put rules in a gunfight? I'm not so good at following those rules. I don't' know what will happen at WrestleMania.” KnowsHappensTroubleFrontsChangedPagesFollowingArenaPromotersGunfightsWrestlemania Author:Roddy Piper
“...a college education feeds an adolescent in one end and gets a young adult out the other. In the process of those four years that person has changed significantly, and you and I have been agents of that change.....what happens, in the course of what we do, is soul making.” YearsPersonsHas BeensSoulEndsHappensYoungCoursesProcessFourTeachingChangedCollegeAdultsYoung AdultAgentsFour YearsCollege Education Author:Leroy S Rouner
“We do need curriculum reform. And it should happen at the state and local level. That is where educational policy belongs, because if a parent is unhappy with what their child is being taught in school, they can go to that local school board or their state legislature, or their governor and get it changed.” IfsNeedsShouldChildrenStatesHappensSchoolParentLevelsPolicyChangedTaughtEducationalUnhappyLocalsReformBoardsGovernorsLegislatureCurriculumState LegislaturesSchool Board Author:Marco Rubio
“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.” IfsWorldHappensLyingPeaceMusicThis WorldChangedMusicianMusic IsGuitarFake PeopleGreat MusicGuitaristInspirational MusicPower Of MusicMusic SoulMusic LifeWorld MusicBlues MusicFamous MusicianMusic Is LifeOld MusicGuitar MusicMusic ArtistPassion For MusicMusic Is My Passion Author:Jimi Hendrix
“I still have the same outlook on things that I did 10, 20 years ago. As an animator, there’s no career path that you can follow; there’s very few people doing this that you can look to and pinpoint the mistakes. It hasn’t changed since I was little. You have interests and follow them and strange things happen, organically or not.” PeopleYearsLooksLittlesStillsHappensInterestMistakeCareersPathChangedStrangeYears AgoThings HappenOutlookStrange ThingsCareer PathAnimator Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“Yes it did really. It was very exciting to find that my energy could be directed into something more useful and positive. I was starting to get panicked. I was thinking 'what am I going to do with my life?' I wasn't sure what was going to happen. Then I became crazily obsessed with acting. I suddenly had a work ethic and then everything changed completely for the better because I knew what I wanted to do with my life.” ThinkingHappensWantedEnergyActingChangedEthicsExcitingStartingObsessedWork Ethic Author:John Leguizamo
“People can write jokes five minutes after a major world event happens, and have hundreds of thousands of people read them within 10 minutes. Whereas before you write a joke, you don't know if anybody is really touching on it or not, and you tell it onstage the next night. For joke writing it has changed things.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldWritingHappensNightNextFiveMinutesEventsChangedMajorsJokesTouchingFive MinutesWorld Events Author:Nick Thune
“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland...I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around...Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.” IfsWorldFeelsWritingLittlesHappensMovingLyingHateImaginationFictionPlayerThis WorldChangedKeysI HateScience FictionGuitarCornersNakedDancerSongwritersGuitar PlayerBlandTap Dancers Author:Jimi Hendrix
“What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.” MenWorldHappensEyeChangedHe ManNosesRelyHis EyesDependentOrgans Book:The Nature of the Physical World: Gifford Lectures (1927) Source: The Nature of the Physical World: Gifford Lectures (1927)
“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
“I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn't planned; it was realism. Over the years, the work has changed for me. I know that I have wanted to repeat myself, but I can't. I've been lost a lot of times, but then I'd just get an idea and photograph it. Once I'd started, I'd know exactly what would go down and how it would end. So I just quit doing it, because it loses all interest for me when you know what's going to happen.” KnowsYearsI CanIdeasEndsHappensWantedPurposeLostInterestLosesHappenedChangedMy FriendsDown AndCamerasPhotographQuittingInnocentRepeatsPurityRealism Author:Larry Clark
“Finding a single investment that will return 20% per year for 40 years tends to happen only in dreamland. In the real world, you uncover an opportunity, and then you compare other opportunities with that. And you only invest in the most attractive opportunities. That's your opportunity cost. That's what you learn in freshman economics. The game hasn't changed at all. That's why Modern Portfolio Theory is so asinine.” WorldYearsRealHappensOpportunityGamesModernChangedTheoryReturnCostFindingsEconomicsInvestmentCompareAttractiveReal WorldPortfoliosFreshmanDreamlandOpportunity Cost Author:Charlie Munger
“I think 'Twilight' was such a phenomenon that it will be a while before anything like that will happen again. Cause it really influenced pop culture, and the stars of it - well, the people who became stars out of it - their lives were completely changed.” PeopleThinkingWellsHappensCultureStarsCausesChangedPopsPhenomenonTwilightPop Culture Author:Saoirse Ronan
“It happens all the time! People are always talking about that explosive moment in their family history that sort of changed everything and rattled the cage, and more times than not it has nothing to do with trans issues. That's why people are relating to the show Transparent, because our family is their family and they understand that dynamic.” PeopleMomentsShowsHappensTalkingIssuesChangedOur FamilyMore TimeCagesTransparentTransExplosivesFamily History Author:Judith Light
“What happened with Final Destination was that the movie was in post-production for a long time and I think they changed a lot of the deaths, so a lot of those things were last-minute additions. Everything we shot is in the movie and it's all been designed. We didn't change anything. It's been a year of making those things happen, exactly as we had pictured them.” ThinkingYearsLongHappensLastsHappenedMinutesChangedLong TimeShotsFinalsProductionsThings HappenPostsDestinationLast MinuteFinal DestinationPost Production Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“NEU!'s music will always ("für immer") be a part of me and I absolutely stand to what we've created. Of course I have changed since and I judge my contributions to NEU!'s music of the 70's in a historical context. They were both a description of my feelings back then as well as an expression of my musical abilities and limitations. It would be a mistake to ignore the time factor and it would be an artistic shortcoming to pick up on the old concept without doing any changes. There is no way this is going to happen anyway.” WayWellsFeelingsHappensWould BeCoursesAbilityMistakeChangedExpressionJudgingPicksConceptsHistoricalMusicalFactorsArtisticLimitationContributionDescriptionShortcomingsI Have ChangedHistorical ContextMusical Ability Author:Michael Rother
“On second marriage: It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it's scary but I think it can happen when you get involved and you don't know yourself yet.” ThinkingKnowsHappensCommonChangedInvolvedOne DaySurpriseScaryKnow YourselfGet InvolvedSecond Marriage Author:Angelina Jolie
“I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.” PeopleThinkingWayStillsHappensChangedMachinesTreatedSexismPublicityThings Have Changed Author:Erica Jong
“I'm in a unique situation. I'm 5-foot-6, 175 pounds, so I wouldn't say people are super afraid of me. I live a normal life. I don't walk into a room and everybody looks at me and says, "He plays for the Cleveland Browns" or "He's an NFL superstar" - that doesn't happen. I go under the radar. Most people don't realize who I am until I tell them. So it's not like my life has changed since I've been in the NFL or people treat me any different.” PeopleLooksDifferentPlayHappensRealizingWalksRoomsSituationFeetChangedNormalUniqueTreatsWho I AmNflPoundsLook At MeSuperstarNormal LifeRadarClevelandLife Has ChangedCleveland Browns Author:Andrew Hawkins
“The worst thing that can happen is when you have gone weeks and months into elaborate sequences and the storyline of the film changes and you find out they don't need it. Sometimes you don't shoot those sequences, or they have been shot and then get edited out of the sequence you've shot gets changed and needs to be redone. That can be hard. It's not heartbreaking, but you do tend to think, "Och, all that work and effort." But that's filming, you know? You put all of these modular things into the pot, and sometimes they don't all get used.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsHas BeensSometimesHardHappensFilmUsedEffortGoneWeekWorstChangedMonthsShotsPotWorst ThingsSequenceHeartbreakingEditedStoryline Author:Wade Eastwood
“Everything has changed and we're all living in one city now. What happens somewhere affects things everywhere, so I have to be careful and whatever stories I work on, I want them to have redeeming moral values.” WantStoriesHappensValuesCitiesMoralChangedCarefulBe CarefulMoral ValuesRedeemingThings Have Changed Author:Stan Lee
“Everybody was going along thinking that it was a day like any other day, and bang, down went the Twin Towers. Changed everything. So you can't really predict the future, but you can say, "Boy, are those glaciers ever melting." You can measure that, and you can say, "When they're all melted there won't be any Athabasca River," and you can say, "What will happen to the oil sands then?" because you need a lot of water to make that oil. "Where's that going to come from?" You can say things like that.” ThinkingNeedsHappensWaterBoysChangedRiversOilSandTwinsTowersBangsMeltingGlaciersTwin Towers Author:Margaret Atwood
“It definitely changed the game. I happen to be in the game around [the time] when the internet kicked in.” HappensGamesChangedInternet Author:Young Jeezy