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“Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it had its dangers, it was nothing like it would be today. It was the Summer of Love and there was a real sense of community among us. We were hippies who looked out for each other instead of trying to rip each other off. We only had to watch out for the police who liked to roust us just on general principles, and the kids who came in from the suburbs to do a little hippie-bashing.”

Way Trying Littles Different Real Would Be Kids Today Community Principles Watches Streets Danger Changed Summer Police Rip Hippie Living On Suburbs Different Times

Author:Charles de Lint

“Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.”

Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

“All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.”

Would Be Remember Childhood Changed Strange Vague New Experiences Monotony Lapses

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“To be sure, [NASCAR] stars were initially ex-bootleggers for the most part drawn from that talent pool in the Carolinas hills: "good ol' boys" as they referred to themselves. That's exactly how they would be described in the press that slowly became enamored with their raucous life style. That has all changed, with the drivers of today polished and clean-cut athletes who are expected to behave like commercial puppets in public.”

Would Be Today Stars Boys Cutting Talent Style Changed Presses Clean Athlete Expected Hills Behave Drivers Pool Exes Puppets Carolina Polished Enamored Life Style Nascar

Author:Brock Yates

“It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis... and the salmon will run the river. And then my countrymen... all classes and manner of men-will stand side by side and fish for the salmon. And their natures, too, will be changed. They will feel the enchantment of this silver fish... and then when talk turns to what this tribe said or that tribe did... then someone will say, Let us arise, and go fishing.”

“Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows from what has been said that there have been movements to bring about a changed distribution of power to do - and power to think and to express thought is a power to do- so that there would be a more balanced, a more equal, even, and equitable system of human liberties.”

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953

“Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.”

Ifs World Would Be United States Crime This World Changed Luck Ill Misfortunes

Book:America Day by Day

Source: America Day by Day

“The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted into a good life, or an infernal into an angelic life: because every spirit, from head to foot, is of the character of his love, and therefore, of his life; and to convert this life into its opposite, would be to destroy the spirit utterly.”

Mean Character Would Be Spirit Evil Change Wise Feet Changed Opposites This Life Good Life His Love After Death Angelic

Book:A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

Source: A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

“[After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for mayor and he didn't consult me about running for governor. It would be nice to be asked. ... You know, I've been my mother's daughter, my father's daughter, the wife of my husband, the mother of my six children, and grandmother to my eleven grandchildren, but I have never been me. But I am now because I went away. I am a changed woman.”

“All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.”

Ifs Way Kind Made Different Would Be Care Used Changed Jokes Used To Be Made It Bottles Going Out Jack Daniels

Author:Sammy Hagar

“In 1979, we thought it would be easier to take power. The intervention of the United States has changed the circumstances.”

War States Would Be Peace United United States Changed Circumstances Easier Intervention

Author:Mario Lopez

“If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed.”

Ifs Would Be Changed Election

Author:Emma Goldman

“I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.”

Ifs Would Be Courses Stuff Growth Changed Balance Argument Population Denial Atmosphere Population Growth Astounded

Author:David Attenborough

“Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts we know, the less radical become the changes in our theories. Hence they are becoming more and more constant. But take the theory of gravitation; it has not been changed in four hundred years.”

Ifs Knows Needs Years Facts Would Be Change Four Changed Theory Becoming Hundred Constant Radical Now And Then Becoming More Reconstruction Scientific Theory Gravitation

Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“If voting changed anything, it would be illegal.”

Ifs Would Be Changed Voting Illegal

Author:George Carlin

“It's very tough to give advice because it's tough out there for everybody but for a girl it's even tougher, because I don't think the glass ceiling has changed at all in the past 30 years. Otherwise the radio would be covered with girl bands, or girls in bands, so I don't think much has changed on that level. But I think that bands can still have a lot of success trying to go another route.”

Thinking Giving Trying Years Stills Would Be Past Girl Levels Advice Changed Band Tough Glasses Radio Covered Routes Ceilings Glass Ceiling

Author:Joan Jett

“I always wrote about girls that went to the beach and had that summer that changed everything. So I was interested in what it would be like to live in a tourist town where everyone has these life changing experiences, but your whole life is there.”

Whole Would Be Life Is Girl Changed Summer Towns Whole Life Beach Life Changing Tourists Life Changing Experience

Author:Sarah Dessen

“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.”

World Children Stills Ideas Would Be Left Grows Parent Growing Up Changed Gay Homosexual Gay Parents

Author:Andrew Solomon

“We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.”

“I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks, and I would be prepared to go down to 20.”

Should Believe Would Be Past Law I Believe Week Changed Prepared Available Abortion Be Prepared Restriction

Author:Michael Howard

“These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks. That's certainly what I'm hoping. It would be a real letdown if the trend changed before this masterpiece goes to print.”

Ifs Book Real Seems Would Be Changed Computer Idiot These Days Print Trends Masterpiece Bucks Laptops Letdowns Laptop Computers

Book:The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions

Source: The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions

“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.”

Ifs Firsts Book Different Would Be Past Form Used Reading Cities Written Crazy Rocks Changed First Time Sentences Used To Be If I Could Likelihood Drive Me Crazy Fargo

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.”

Ifs Knows Men May Reason Would Be Names Given Know How Atheism Subjects Changed Scene China Sufficient Britain Coming Home Freedom Of Thought Treason

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“In 2007, my life changed forever. I signed on Tashan, a full-on glamorous masala movie, with two of the hottest and fittest actors around: Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan. And me, rising out of the sea like a Bond girl, wearing nothing but a green bikini. I had nightmares of how my love handles would be on display for the whole world to see.”

World Two Whole Would Be Girl Actors Forever Sea Changed Green Handle Whole World Life Changing Rising Nightmare Display Glamorous Bikinis Hottest Bond Girl

Author:Kareena Kapoor

“If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?”

Ifs Want Children Would Be School Enjoy Dark Changed Color Skins Vote Available Officials Restaurants Lunch Delay Public School Public Officials Free Life

Author:John F. Kennedy

“If any influential nation had the great spiritual strength to lay down its arms and appear with clean hands before the world, the world would be changed. I see no evidence that any influential nations has such great spiritual strength and courage. Therefore disarmament will be a slow process, motivated by the wish to survive.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“[The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and the patience of the reader would be exhausted by the repetition of the same hostilities [between Rome and Persia], undertaken without cause, prosecuted without glory, and terminated without effect.”

Would Be Nations Causes Fate Effects Events Changed Reader Pages Glory Impression Rome Exhausted Repetition Hostility Persia

Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

“The way so many musicians slavishly imitated Coltrane, that's the way it was with Charlie Parker - only even more so, if that can be imagined. Everyone that I knew changed totally. But they took the worst things of his playing-that harsh sound; it just didn't come off the way they did it. The way he did it was great, Their way wasn't good at all. I just would listen to 'em, say: 'That's a Bird imitator', and that would be it; I would never care to listen to them again.”

Ifs Way Would Be Care Sound Worst Changed Musician Bird Ems Harsh Worst Things Charlie Imitator Coltrane

Author:Art Pepper

“Climate has always changed. It always has and always will. Sea level has always changed. Ice sheets come and go. Life always changes. Extinctions of life are normal. Planet Earth is dynamic and evolving. Climate changes are cyclical and random. Through the eyes of a geologist, I would be really concerned if there were no change to Earth over time. In the light of large rapid natural climate changes, just how much do humans really change climate?”

“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.”

“There was definitely a pecking order, and when Stallone walked in, we were like, "All hail!" He came in with his big forearms, pointing and telling everybody where he wanted the cameras with his big cigar ablazing, and you just go, "This is Stallone!" with admiration, because none of us would be here without this guy. That's the thing, he changed movies forever”

Bigs Would Be Wanted Guy Order Forever Changed Cameras Admiration This Guy Pointing Cigar Hail Pecking Order

Author:Terry Crews

“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.”

Giving Whole Would Be Three Millions Economy Records Five Groups Changed Ten Dollars Eighty Million Dollars Upside Down

Author:Tony Visconti

“These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over what it should be, and it has changed. It's not precise like a diagnosis of tuberculosis would be very precise.”

Should Would Be Half Changed Doctors Autism Committees Precise Diagnosis Profile Other Half Adhd Bickering Dyslexia Tuberculosis

Author:Temple Grandin

“Borlaug would be one figure that I think fundamentally changed India, China, all of Southeast Asia, and gave them the time to be able to build on other things.”

Thinking Would Be Able Figures Changed India China Asia Southeast Asia

Author:Juan Enriquez

“In the steel-and-glass society that we live in, the value system would be that the lawyer, with the Mercedes and the fine suit and the Ivy League education, was more valued than the minority without the education. But on the island, the rules are changed. It's the person who can make a fire or who can make friends. A kind human soul is valued.”

Humans Kind Persons Soul Would Be Values Fire Changed Fine Glasses Lawyer Suits League Islands Minorities Steel Human Soul Ivy Value Systems Ivy League

Author:Scott Raab

“Many family planning clinics and - and programs that service women have refused now to take women's - United State's money because they feel that it would be unethical, and it could injure their clients even more, their patients even more. That has to be changed.”

Feels States Would Be United United States Changed Program Patient Planning Clients Clinic Unethical Family Planning

Author:Eleanor Smeal

“With Keith's [my fiance] murder, I was changed. I thought I would be a prosecutor forever, but there were so many days when I would leave the courtroom during a trial, and go down the hall to the ladies' room, and go into a little stall, and cry.”

Littles Would Be Rooms Forever Cry Changed Murder Trials Halls Keith Prosecutor Courtroom Fiance My Fiance

Author:Nancy Grace

“[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

“Earlier the world was bi polar. Foreign policy would be centered around two super powers. India was a little late in realizing that this bi polar situation was for namesake. Now the entire world, in changed circumstances, especially in 21st century, it is more interdependent and inter connected, earlier, the foreign policy was possible between governments, but today it is not possible just between governments. Government relations are important but increasing people to people contact is equally important. There's been a shift in paradigm.”

“[My father] would be proud, he would hug me and he would be sitting front-row at all the events where I talk to the youth about not repeating [Pablo Escobar's] story because I am a consequence of what he did and I have not changed my stance on violence since we talked about it.”

Stories Would Be Father Violence Fronts Events Changed Youth Proud Sitting Consequence Hug Be Proud Stance Hug Me Pablo Escobar

Author:Juan Pablo Escobar

“I think the Arab awakening has changed everything and I think a lot will depend on what people there ask of us, may be nothing, it may be a lot. I think that really depends how they find their voice and what they see as their real interest, and hopefully that would be for more schools and not more tanks.”

People Thinking May Real Would Be School Asks Voice Interest Changed Depends Awakening Hopefully Tanks

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Who knows what exactly changed Tom Cotton`s mind. I mean, maybe it was that woman who said her husband was dying and only alive thanks to the Affordable Care Act. Maybe it was the young woman on your right side of your screen who said that without the treatment she could only receive through the Affordable Care Act she herself would be dead.”

Knows Mind Mean Said Would Be Care Young Sides Alive Dying Changed Husband Screens Thanks Treatment Toms Young Women Affordable Cotton Affordable Care Act

Author:Rachel Maddow

“I think the mild Aspergers have always been there. You see, Asperger's diagnosis did not become common in the U.S. until the early '90s. And an Aspergers has more or less normal speech development and they've always been here, that hasn't changed. I can think back to when I was in high school, this is 40 years ago, I could name kids in my high school class and college class that, today, would be diagnosed as Aspergers.”

Thinking Years I Can Would Be Kids Today School Names Common Class Changed College Development Speech Normal High School Years Ago Diagnosis Aspergers High School Class

Author:Temple Grandin

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