“I left L.A. and moved to Cleveland for four years in the early 2000s or whatever. I came back and thought that everything had changed. I was like, 'Oh my God, I don't think I ever fit in here. And wait, who are all of these celebrities that are not actors? Where did all of the actors go?” ThinkingYearsActorsLeftWaitingFourChangedFitMovedFour YearsCleveland Author:Monica Potter
“Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: 'I have a civil right.' What the homosexual movement wants to do is to hitch their agenda to the civil rights movement, but I point out that this is illegitimate for a number of reasons. Number one, no black person has ever left his black-ness or changed his black-ness, but plenty of people have come out of the homosexual movement. What we need to do is distinguish between race and behavior.” PeopleWantNeedsPersonsReasonLeftSexBlackLinesNumbersRaceRightsMovementChangedBehaviorArgumentCivil RightsPlentyAgendasHomosexualCivil Rights MovementBlack Person Author:Erwin W. Lutzer
“I remember walking into the Bible study. I had a knot in my stomach. In my mind, only weirdoes and zealots went to Bible studies. I don't remember what was said that day. All I know is that when I left, everything had changed. I'll never forget standing outside that apartment on the Upper East Side and saying to myself, “It's true. It's completely true.” The world looked entirely different, like a veil had been lifted off it. I had not an iota of doubt. I was filled with indescribable joy.” KnowsWorldMindSaidDifferentRememberJoyLeftSidesForgetStudyDoubtChangedWalkingStandingFilledEastNever ForgetStomachApartmentStanding OutVeilsKnotsBible StudyIndescribableZealotEast SideUpper East Side Author:Kirsten Powers
“I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.” FirstsWellsRememberLeftActingChangedTelevisionNewsFemaleLife ChangingReportersTelevision News Author:Lynne Reid Banks
“The best option for me to do was not to move. I tried, and any little nudge or step, it the cramping would get worse. It was the whole left leg ... nearly the whole left side. ... I drank a lot of fluids at halftime. I even changed my uniform.” LittlesWholeMovingLeftSidesStepsChangedLegsUniformsChampionshipDrankFluidNudgeNba ChampionshipsNba FinalsHalftime Author:LeBron James
“The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.” WorldChildrenStillsIdeasWould BeLeftGrowsParentGrowing UpChangedGayHomosexualGay Parents Author:Andrew Solomon
“I had read the scripts that Nora Ephron had written as a movie about Mike McAlary. We were never able to make it at HBO because we couldn't cast it properly and when I left I called Nora and said, "Look, I actually think that the movie luckyguyindustry has changed. It's very unlikely that you'd be able to make this as a movie. I actually think it's a play."” ThinkingLooksSaidPlayAbleLeftWrittenChangedScriptsCastsUnlikelyMikeHbo Author:Colin Callender
“John Hughes made a certain type of high school movie, and then it stayed static for 30 years. The only thing that changed was that maybe it was found footage or maybe it's a little snarkier, but the actual language that kids live in today, like with texting, motion graphics, the internet and that whole hashtag culture doesn't exist in movies today. It's left on the floor.” YearsLittlesMadeWholeKidsTodaySchoolCertainCultureFoundLeftLanguageChangedTypeInternetHigh SchoolStaticTextingHashtagsHigh School Movie Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“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
“For years and years and years... people showed me pictures that had been left unclaimed at big photo-finishers. Sometimes I think it changed my personality, sometimes I wonder if it didn't damage my brain.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsSometimesBigsLeftBrainWonderChangedPersonalityDamageSometimes I WonderFinishers Author:Michael Lesy
“I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I came out than I was when I went in, and was not positively changed in any way.” WayLittlesLeftChangedPrisonDestroyedPositivelyWrecks Author:Patricia McConnell
“I want to tell everybody that you won't hear me trying to pop bottles in the club and all that kind of stuff. It's just not me and I think as long as you stay within your element and your age bracket, sure you're going a couple of young folks and teens, but that's not who I'm focused on. I'm really not. I love whoever supports, but I'm just not going to try and go back there because times have changed. If you don't move with the times, you'll get left off. I'm trying to change with the times.” IfsThinkingWantTryingKindLongAgeMovingYoungLeftStuffSupportChangedCoupleElementsFolksClubsPopsFocusedBottlesTeensTrying To ChangeTimes Have ChangedBrackets Author:Ginuwine
“If you've got communities that feel they've been left behind, if you've got - as you do in Britain at the moment, you have communities that believe they're being changed by immigration, that they don't have job opportunities, and that they're disregarded and that they don't - they've got no stake in a future which embraces globalization, you've got to address that issue.” IfsFeelsBelieveMomentsJobsOpportunityLeftCommunityBehindsIssuesChangedEmbraceImmigrationBritainAddressesStakesGlobalizationLeft BehindDisregardedJob Opportunities Author:Tony Blair
“There are other concerns in this state [of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania], which is one of the prettiest. It's also one of the poorest, where people here are making less than the national average. Unemployment is higher than the national average, and a lot of the young people, especially, have left because there just aren't jobs and that sort of thing. So you have that going on, the feeling that that hasn't really changed in years or at least with their help - with the last state government.” PeopleYearsStatesHelpingFeelingsGovernmentJobsLastsYoungLeftChangedHigherConcernWesternAverageUnemploymentPoorestState GovernmentPrettiest Author:Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
“As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.” PeopleWorldLoveKindAgeSchoolChristianTurnsLeftChurchJusticeChangedNeededGayHigh SchoolInjusticeLabelsTeenagerCategoriesGood PeopleIgnoredLiedPeace And JusticeContainersSortingBeing LiedGreat ChristianGay FriendInjustice In The World Author:Nadia Bolz-Weber
“The Pirate Party started in Sweden in 2006, and it only had one agenda: to change draconian copyright laws. But it's changed and shifted primarily because the questions of human rights and cyber have become much more relevant. So if you want to place it somewhere on the spectrum, I would say it's a party that has its roots in civilian rights. But we are not like many left parties that want to regulate citizens and create nanny states. We believe that regulation should be on the powerful, not the individuals.” IfsWantShouldBelieveHumansStatesLawIndividualLeftPowerfulPartyRightsChangedCitizensRootsHuman RightsAgendasRelevantRegulationCiviliansSpectrumPirateCopyrightSwedenCyberNanniesCopyright LawDraconian Author:Birgitta Jonsdottir
“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
“What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with the language we use to justify it. In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color "criminals" and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.” PeopleUseLeftLanguageSocialJusticeRaceBehindsPracticeChangedColorStructureCriminalsDiscriminationLabelsErasRelyOur SocietyJustifyContemptCollapseJustificationLeft BehindCrowJustice SystemExclusionCriminal JusticeJim CrowCriminal Justice System Author:Michelle Alexander